School: Ballintemple
- Location:
- Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Nic Eoin
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- Funny Story
One time two boys were stealing nuts beside a graveyard and they had the nuts got they went into the graveyard to divide them equally. As they were going across the cemetary wall they dropped a nut at the far side. As they were crossing the wall another boy saw them and followed them and hid behind the wall. The two were dividing the nuts like this. One for e me, one for you till they came to an end and all of a sudden they thought of the nut across the wall. Says they, What about the fellow over the wall.
The other boy across the thought it was God and the Devil sorting souls in the graveyard.
Its now the Devils turn to get a soul and he thought he had to go to the Devil and he ran for his life.
- Collector
- Bill Graham
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William H. Graham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dillagh, Co. Cavan
