School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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- (continued from previous page)wouldn't grow.
13 If you step on a "stray" sod at night so that you can't get out of the field turn your coat.
14 If a man going to a fair meets a red-haired woman or a barefooted woman he may turn back because he will have no luck.
- 1 Sow me late,
Or sow me soon,
I'll break my neck,
Or I'll shoot in June.
Ans. Rye
2 There is a man on you're corn wall
His head is flesh
And his mouth is horn.
And there was never such a man born.
Ans. A cock.
