School: Castlecary
- Location:
- Ballyrattan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mary S.J. Donaghy
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- (continued from previous page)to my Father's house and asked him for leave to let him live in one of the pig-houses, for he could stand the noise no longer. My father told him to go home and sleep in his own bed, but for to leave back the wee shoe where he got it. Paddy did so, and he was never afterwards annoyed at night.
Shortly after this, old Paddy died.
- What is it that is too short? Cut a bit off and you'll make it long !
Ans. A Grave.
Formed long ago, made every day,
Few wish to keep it, and less to give it away.
Ans. A bed.
Little Billy Breek sits by the reek (rick)
He has more horns than all the Kings sheep.
Ans. A Hedgehog. - Collector
- Arthur Peoples
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecary, Co. Donegal
