School: Knockminna (roll number 12720)
- Location:
- Knockmoynagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Scannláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 499
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- (continued from previous page)all bend down until the palms of their hands rest on the ground leaving their backs level. Then one boy jumps over each one in turn imitating the hop of a frog.
- The following rhyme is to be repeated as quickly as possible without drawing breath.
Thirteen larks in a nest with their tails turned t deesh,
Twelve cows giving milk with their spanchels made of silk,
Eleven ladies in a ring six to dance and five to sing,
Ten grey mares all shod and shoen and their fillies out before them,
Nine magnifying ministers well fit for preaching,
Eight yellow hammers in an oven baking,
Seven squinking squirrels in a crab tree squeaking,
Six grey geese in a green field grazing,
Five rung pings in a rye field(continues on next page)
