School: Scoil Mhuire (B.)
- Location:
- Skull, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)It wasn't flesh, feather or bone,
And in three weeks it walked alone.
An egg.Hairy all over, rough in the skin,
Two things shaking and one going in.
A pig eating food.Ink, ank, under a bank, ten drawing four.
A woman milking a cow.As black as ink, as white as snow, and jumps like hailstone on the roads.
A magpieLittle brown cow without any horns.
A rabbitLong-legged daddy, big-belly mother, three little children all the same colour.
A potRounder than a ring, higher than a tree, worse than womankind, and what is beneath the sea.
The worldAs I went up a slippery gap, I met my Auntie Nellie, I chopped off her head and sucked her blood.
A blackberry.As I went up a slippery gap I met(continues on next page)
