School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- (continued from previous page)Going to school long ago we used to have what we considered a very smart question to put to a new boy. We used to ask him to read "1/6 & I went into the 5/= Hotel to dine on the 1d of a bird". : -
The translation being Bob Tanner and I went into the Crown Hotel to dine on the wing of a bird."
- 1. Calling calves to the drinking vessel - "Sook, sook, sook! [pronounced like] Look, look, look.2. Calling ducks to prepared food - Feen, feen, feen [pronounced like pín].3. Calling hens. "Tuk, tuk, tuk" or Took, took, took."
Also "Tookie, Tookie, Tookie". 4. Driving in animals, geese, hens, etc to their sleeping quarters -
"Hullah isteach" or Hull isteach".
Seems to be connected with "cosla"[?] sleep.5. Setting a dog off on a chase after sheep or other animals - "Hulla-hull": pronounced like "full".6. Saying "get out of it" to a pig - "Cuirseas" nó [?](continues on next page)
