School: Cill a' Lachtáin

Location:
Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0165

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    two glass eyes
    A bow
    101. A hard working man with a lazy wife and twelve black children dressed in white
    A clock
    102. (Little Jenny Nuddle sitting in the puddle. Green gown and a yellow knot
    A Flagger)
    103. Chip Chop Cherry.
    All the men in Derry,
    Could not climb up.
    Chip chop cherry.
    Smoke.
    104. Red in the middle and black in front and confirmed behind
    a man behind a cloud
    105. When is a man in debt up to his eyes
    When he has not paid for the hat that is on his head
    106. Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went to a river to swin. Adam and Eve fell in. Which of them was saved
    Pinch me
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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