School: Clonegonnell
- Location:
- Clonagonnell, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: L. Ní Chaoindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0976, Page 296
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- Long ago there were no toys for children the mothers would make dolls out of cloth for little girls. She would roll a little wadding in a hard lump for the head and then would cover it with cloth and mark a face on it and then sew on a cloth from the head. The dolls had no legs or arms.
For neck-laces they gathered chestnuts, and made a hole in the middle and then string them.
- Q. What is the shyest thing in the world?
A. A Clock.
Q. A riddle a riddle as I suppose a hundred yes and never a nose?
A. A Thimble.
Q. A leaper of ditches a clipper of thorns a little brown cow with a pair of leather horns?
A. A Hare.
Q. As white as snow and snow its not, as green(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maud Hartley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumleny, Co. an Chabháin
