School: An Gleann (roll number 14113)
- Location:
- Glen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 342
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What goes up when the rain comes down?
I have a little cow with her back to the wall and she would eat all the fodder from here to Donegal. Round the house, round the house and peeps in every hole.
Black and white and read all over.
In comes two legs, sits on three legs, in comes four legs, picks up one leg up jumps two legs, picks up three legs, pegs it at four legs and gets back one leg.
A hard working man, a lazy old woman and twelve little children all the same colour.
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- Collector
- Lizzie Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drummacool, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Drummacool, Co. Sligo
