School: Ramelton
- Location:
- Rathmelton, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 328
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- (continued from previous page)7. Hink pink what goes to the water but never drink. A horse shoe
8. A have a wee mare I call her Peawhey she can wade the waters so deep and climb the mountains so high and my bonnie wee mare she is blind of one eye. The mist.
9. What is like a horse's shoe. A mare's
10. Hink pink down in yonder bank ten about four. A person milking cows.
11. When is a cow roundest. When she is in the barrel.
12. In came two legs carrying one leg and left it down upon three legs. In came four legs and lifted one leg and two legs three three legs after four legs to get back one leg.
In came a butcher carrying a leg of mutton and left it down upon a stool Then in came a dog and lifted the leg of mutton and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Greer
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Glen Lower, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- George Greer
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glen Lower, Co. Donegal
