School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Derreennaclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
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- (continued from previous page)Eliza, Elisabeth, Betty and Bess went over the river to seek a bird's nest. They found nest. Three eggs in it. They took one each and left two in it.
Eliza, Elisabeth, Betty and Bess one girl.
Head like a thimble, tail like a cat, you may guess for ever, but you will never guess that.
A pipe.
Two ms, two as, two rs and a g put them together and spell them for me.
Grammar.
Two ns, two os, an l and a d. put them together and spell them for me.
London.
I have a little house and a mouse could not live in it and all the men in town could not count the number of windows in it.
A thimble.
A steely mare with a flaxen tail going through a calico bridge.
A needle sewing
As I was going up a wall a wall I saw a man a call a call he had beard of flesh and a mouth of horn and such a man was never born.
A cock(continues on next page)
