School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 223
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- (continued from previous page)For a coat You'll have my darling if the cat went to the pound,
Its no matter about the dearness of the pilot or the frieze
I'll get you a liner wali coat so now dry up your eyes.
She had a bunch of yarn that she was after spinning.
And she brought it to a weaver to make a piece of linen,
She left on all instructions to make it close and good,
The weaver for to please her told her he surely would
He says I’ll give it double knocking and I’ll shuttle it with skill,
Besides I’ll decorate it with the sack and double twill,
She half ways bid ‘good evening’ before that she bethought,
Of asking the weaver when would he have it wrought
The weaver thought some time in silence, with his hand up to his cheek
And out of his study answered – ‘About to other morrow week’
She stood some time in silence and studied in a maze.(continues on next page)
