School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)She trotted round on nature's props
And called it Shank's mare.
A. Her feet
Q. A cutter of hedge, and a leaper of corn.
A nice little brown cow, with two leather horns
A. A hare.
Q. Huckety cruckety where do you steer
Clip bare clip bare every year
If I'm a clip bare I'll grow again, but huckety cruckety never will.
A. A crooked stream going through a meadow.
Q. Rolled up in fine linen tied round with a string.
A. Make any old woman caper and sing
Q. As green as grass, its grass it isn't,
As white as mild, its milk it isn't,
As red as blood, its blood it isn't,
As black as ink, its mil ink it isn't,
A. A sloe.
Collected by Kate Coyne (12), Derrygrogan Big, Ballycommon, Daingean from the district.
25.11.'37
- Q. When a man falls, what does he fall again?
A. His will.
Q. The 'sun' hit his father. What did he die from?
A. 'Sun' stroke.Collected by Sheila Boland (13) from her parents - Wood-of-O, Tullamore. 25.11.'37
