School: Druim na dTréad

Location:
Drumnatread, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Stondúin
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    and the man told him that he was wheeling daylight into a dark corner but he was not succeeding and he told him there was a much easier way of doing it than that. So he got a hammer and took a stone out of the wall and this let in the light and the other man said "O you have the "nack" of doing things". He went on to the next house. Here he saw a woman beating a cow up again the wall. He asked her what she was doing and she told him that she was trying to get the cow up on the house to eat the grass off it. So he told her there was a much easier way of doing it than that. He told her that she could get a knife and cut the grass of it. And she told him that he had "the nack" of doing things. He went home and had nothing to say only that he met three people as bad as his own.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gretta Mc Cann
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumnatread, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Terence Mc Cann
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumnatread, Co. Cavan