School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 237
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- One time there lived a wealthy old lady. She decided to buy a motor car, to carry her about in her old days. So she put an advertisement on the paper for a chaffeur.
She received three applications one from a Scotchman an English man an Irishman. She put the question as follows to each.
How near to the edge of a precipice without causing damage ?
The Englishman answered :- "I would drive as near as one foot of the edge.
The Scotchman trying to beat him I would drive as near as half a foot:-
She then turned to the Irishman Paddy replied :- :Begorra, Mam, I would keep away from it as far as I could". So she accepted him.
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- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Patton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
