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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- Guesses1 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(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Emma Neely
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromore, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Sam Neely
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 16
- 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
