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School: Eaglais

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Eglish, Co. Offaly
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Séamus Ó Heifearnáin
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    “As I looked out through my wonderful window I saw white driving white out of white wasn't that a most wonderful thing?”

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    Name: Michael Coughlan, Cloncarbon.
    Age: About 52 years. Farmer
    Date: 8:2:1938
    As I looked out through my wonderful window I saw white driving white out of white wasn't that a most wonderful thing?
    White dogs driving white cattle out of white cabbage.
    What makes more noise than one pig at a gate?
    Two pigs.
    Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes?
    A tongs.
    What is it that goes from door to door and is more afraid of a cock and a hen than of King George and all of his men?
    A. A worm.
    What would go up the chimney down and wouldn't come down the chimney up?
    An umbrella.
    What's neither inside in the house nor outside on the house?
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Michael Coughlan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Cloncarban, Co. Offaly