School: Trentagh (roll number 16331)

Location:
Treantagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. Nic Pheadair

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 018

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1 I was sitting on my hunkers looking through my winkers, I spied a midey gourdy hunter, running through a field of finger lilies.
A dog after sheep through a field.
2 Jeannie in her white petticoats and a red nose, the longer she stands the shorter she grows.
A Candle.
3 I was sitting on my wheeble whable looking through my geeble gabble when I saw the dead burying the living.
She was sitting at the spinning wheel looking through her glasses when she saw the ashes burying the coals.
4 I had a wee mare and I called her my loop, the harder she galloped she swallowed the rope.
A spinning wheel.
5 As I was going over a heathery hill I met a sticking bull, he stuck and I flung if you had been there you would have seen the fun.
A jag in your foot.
6 As I was going over London bridge I met two London scholars and I drew them a lick with my black-thorn stick and what was the name

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Collector
Emma Neely
Gender
female
Address
Dromore, Co. Donegal
Informant
Mrs William Neely
Gender
male
Age
57
Address
Dromore, Co. Donegal
Informant
Mr William Neely
Gender
male
Age
58
Address
Dromore, Co. Donegal
Informant
Mr Sam Neely
Gender
male
Age
16
Address
Dromore, Co. Donegal
Language
English