School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)53 A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns,
A little brown cow with a leather pair of horns?
- A hare.54 A black hen and a white one went up a hill.
Black came down and white stood still.
- A hen, after laying an egg.
Jane Murphy, Corstown.? Should the first line be, "Black and white went up a hill."55 It once was low, but now it's high;
It once was wet; but now it's dry;
It once was black, but now it's red;
I put it up standing and it fell down dead.
- A sod of turf.56 Two brothers we are, great burden we bear
In which we are bitterly pressed.
The truth we do speak: we are full all the day
And empty when we go to rest.
- A pair of boots.57 I washed my face in water that was never rained or run
I dried it in a towel that was never woven or spun.
- I washed it in the dew and dried it in the sun.(continues on next page)
