School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 215
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The letter M.
As I went out a slippery gap I met my Uncle David. I cut off his head and left his body easy?
A head of cabbage.
As round as a basin, as deep as cup and all the King's men could not pull it up?
A well.
Jennie inside the wall, Jennie outside the wall, if you touch Jennie you would cry and ball.
A nettle.
Jennie with the white petticoat, jennie with the red nose, the longer she stands the shorter she grows.
A candle.
I had a cow in stall,
If I gave her the world she would eat it all.
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