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December 18, 2007
14:22 PM

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I have just remembered a tale told by a parent some years ago.

Her daughter came home from school and proceeded to do her homework.
It was a drawing of eleven men and, somewhat incongruously at the end, a large, wheel less pram.
Ah ! Said mother, “and who are they?”

“The apostles”
“And that” ? she asked timorously, pointing at the strange pram like object.
“That ” she was told, with some contempt at her Mother’s ignorance.
“Is Judas’s carrycot”

There is a restaurant in Waterford for twenty something years now which we have always referred to as Carrycots as our eldest daughter, understandably, as she didn’t know any French, thought that this was what “Haricots” were.

Our friends, the Nunns, who eat in a better class of restaurant, referred to one which also still exists in Cashel, as Shake Hands, this being the perfectly logical interpretation their eldest son Naoise gave to the French name ; Chez Hans.

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