School: Manulla (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bairéad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095, Page 333
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- (continued from previous page)trousers what time would it be. Time to get a new one. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, but all the men in Derry wouldn't lift it up.
Round the house, round the house and stands at the back door. A twig a head like a thimble a tail like a rat. You could guess until morning but you couldn't guess that. A pipe. If the clock struck thirteen what time would it be. Time to fix it. Is it with your right hand or your left hand you should stir your tea. Neither of them- with your spoon.
A kitchen full, a room full but you could not catch a spoonful. Smoke. As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman, the other side a man. A penny.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
