School: Lios an Bháird (roll number 13159)
- Location:
- Lissavard, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Ghrífín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0317, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)with gold.
And thus twice I'told his name.
Was.
As I went up a slippery gap,
I met my Auntie Mary.
She had timber toes, and an iron nose
And I thought she was a fairy.
A Plough.
As I was going to Baltimore,
I met a little tailor,
I put him in my pocket
For fear the crows would eat him.
He began to curse me,
And I began to bead him.
I threw him on the road,
And the ducks began to eat him.
A potato.
Head like a thimble,
Tail like a rat,
You may guess for ever,
But you could not guess that.(continues on next page)
