School: Tobar Colmáin, Ráthluirc (roll number 8930)
- Location:
- Saint Colman's Well, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bean Uí Aoláin
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An Old Song (continued)
“Twas in the month of February,”
(continued from previous page)Garryvine in February 1883.
- I went into an orchard I saw a tree with apples on it. I took no apples off. I left no apples on. There were only two apples on the tree. I took one. Four little bottles going up a hill with their heads down? A cows paps. What time is it when a man has seventy pieces in his trousers? Time to get a new one. What goes up a ladder with its head down? A nail in the sole of my boot.(continues on next page)
