School: Ughtyneill (roll number 12897)
- Location:
- Ughtyneill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad, Bean Uí Chinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0705, Page 242
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- (continued from previous page)Or I'd advise you try tobacco as a solace for your core
I myself a real "Verginny" like to keep a good store.
Half an ounce per day or moreIII
Then my thoughts ranged farther, wider, till I gazed upon a spider
That was weaving, weaving, weaving cobwebs on the ceiling o'er my door
For such things in every station will escape that observation
Of the tidiest servant-maiden you can get upon your floor
And our help is rather youthful - a small girl half a score
Is her age, - not one day moreIV
Testily I down my book laid muttering, grumbling about Euclid
On a settle in a nook laid I resolved to have a snore
And while thus I lay a-dozing on that settle snug reposing
Both my eyes serenely closing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cristiná Nic an t Saoi
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymakane, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Padraigh Ó Ceanglaigh
- Gender
- Male
