School: Castlecoote (roll number 6344)
- Location:
- Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghabhláin
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- (continued from previous page)I saw someone leaning in over it and another day I saw the baby laughing at some person.
The baby girl grew up to be a fine strong beautiful girl and she live to be a very old woman.
- A man without learning and wearing good clothes, is like a gold ring in a borrow pig's nose.
But a man with learning and wearing bad clothes, so highly respected wherever he goes.inky, pinky my black hen,
she lays her eggs for gentlemen
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten
Inky, pinky, my black hen.
