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School: Gallen

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Gallen, Co. Offaly
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T.R. Goodwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 127

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    (11) As I looked out through my grandfather's window
    I saw a wonderful thing
    I saw the dead carrying the live?
    A ship
    (12) When did Cain hate his brother?
    When he was able
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    (1) As I went down a pluddery boreen,
    I met my Daddy and Roisin,
    She had timber toes and an iron nose
    And 'pon my word she'd frighten the crows
    A man with a gun shooting crows
    (2) Little red Neddy goat,
    Has a white petticoat,
    The longer it lives,
    The shorter it grows.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosie Cooughlan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Noggusboy, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs J. Coughlan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    58
    Address
    Noggusboy, Co. Offaly