School: Áth Dúna, Gleann an Phréacháin, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12542)
- Location:
- Chimneyfield, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Duinnshléibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0382, Page 232
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- To be said quickly and without pausing, several times
1. "Hot blood cold blood."
2. "Wound you snuff shop snuff as I snuff shop snuff."
3. "Three grey geese in a green field grazing. Grey were the geese and green was the grazing"
4. "I rattled my bottles through Gollocks's Iron barn door"
5. At Hurling one boy says. "Hurry hither with the leather, there's a tanyard here.
- One asks to spell thaoibhíní ruadh.
Another replies in this manner
t-ee, v-ee, n, ee, rough. And says taoibhíní ruadh.
ANOTHER word.
Trans-mag-ní.fi-cant, ban-dan-dual-ity
- transmagnificantbandanduality.
Spell difficulty.
REPLY Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs ffi, Mrs C, Mrs U Mrs lty.
difficulty.
TOMHAS
Cork and Kerry, Londonderry,
Spell me that without a K.
.THAT.
