School: Gleann Calraighe (roll number 15864)
- Location:
- Gleann Chalraí Íochtarach, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0139, Page 58
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- If there was a goose above on the steeple how would you get her down? To pluck the feathers and pick the down. As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the Kings horses would'nt pick it up? A spring well. Round the house and round the house and lies at the back door. A twig or besom as round as an apple as plumb as a ball, as high as Killala both steeple and all? The sun. Round the house and round the house and travels on its head? Nails in your boot. As I went down the boireen, I met my sister Rosaleen, steel toes, iron nose, and God knows she would frighten the crows? A gun. Long legs crooked thighs, small head and no eyes? A thongs. As I went out to the garden I met my uncle Davy I cut off his head and left his body lying easy? A head of cabbage.(continues on next page)
