The horse is drunk.

This is the unbelievable snippet from a children’s school textbook that is apparently being used to teach six-year-old Irish children.

The snap above shows four pages of the textbook, which one user of image-sharing site Imgur claims is being used in her six-year-old’s class. 

The woman who uploaded the picture captioned it ‘What my 6 year old is reading in school in Ireland’. 

We join the book some way through the story, with the selected text reading:

 

"The horse went slower and slower.

Suddenly it stopped.

Then it sat down and went to sleep.

Harry Smith and the children climbed off the cart.

“The horse is drunk”, said Mum."

 

The next pages go on to explain that the horse is drunk after eating some rotten apples.

Horse not on the lash - some rotten apples are to blame for his drunken state... 

While we’re all for advanced early education, a drunken state isn’t something we’d imagine too many parents would think is a necessary thing to explain to a six-year-old… but maybe we’re just harking back to simpler times, you’d never have this kind of carry-on with Ann and Barry.