School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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- Why does a miller wear a white hat? Answer. To keep his head warm. What is the best thing you could put in a apple cake? Answer Your teeth. May West fell from the top of Nelson's Pillar. What time of the year was it? Answer, the end of May. In youth exalted high in air, or bathing in the water fair, nature to form me he took delight, and clad my body all in white, a person tall of slender waist, on eighter sides with fringe is grased, till I a tyrant man as espied, and dragged me from my mothers side, my skin he frayed, my hair he cropped, at head and foot, my body lopped, and with a heart more hard than stone, he stripped my marrow to the bone, to vex me more, he took a fraid, and split my tongue to make me speak, but wonderfully it appears, I speak two eyes, and not two ears, He oft imploys me in disguise, and makes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardline, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ardline, Co. Sligo
