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Help to identify short story please

Moonstomper · 2010-07-11 00:01:48

I am trying to find a short story which was on the Intermediate or Leaving Cert English prose syllabus in the mid seventies and wonder if anyone might remember the author or title It was about a group of schoolboys who'd taken a day off to pick potatoes. One of them intended to use his wages to buy a pair of red socks…

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11-07-2010 1:01am

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Moonstomper

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I am trying to find a short story which was on the Intermediate or Leaving Cert English prose syllabus in the mid seventies and wonder if anyone might remember the author or title

It was about a group of schoolboys who'd taken a day off to pick potatoes. One of them intended to use his wages to buy a pair of red socks which he was convinced would make him irresistible to women.

Ring any bells?

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