School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)
- Location:
- Cartron, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 328
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- (continued from previous page)shoves me with a smile of good luck on her brow.
A teapot.
9 As I sat on my hiccidy diccidy I looked out through my dimmely dic, I saw Willie Wallpaper with a wad on his back and what a wonder spied I.
A fox with a goose on his back.
10 I washed my face in the water that never rained or ran, and I dried it in the towel that was never wove or spun.
I washed it in the dew and dried it in the sun.
11 How can you compare a tailor to a lawyer.
Both like to have a suit at hand.
12 How would you compare a girl to an army of soldiers.
A girl powders her face and an army faces powder.
13 Pray, tell me ladies if you can, who is this highly criminal man and although he marries many a wife he keeps single all his life.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Taylor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corracramph North, Co. Leitrim
