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School: Convent of Mercy, Clogheen

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Clogheen, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Sr. M. Emmanuel Hearn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0574, Page 042

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    A Funny Story.
    One night a man named John Doyle was returning home from a neighbouring house at which he had been card-playing When he was coming along the road he heard a great noise coming along after him like the noise of a two-horse car. When the noise came near him he thought he was lifted off the road and put into a grand car into which he was taken away for miles, as swift as the wind.
    At long last the car stopped and he was taken into a big barn. When he went in there were hundreds of men in the barn and to his surprise
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Mary Tobin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynomasna, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr Tobin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballynomasna, Co. Tipperary