School: Tullogher, Ros Mhic Treoin (roll number 14648)

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1. Rhyme for Children (continued)

   

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   much more palatable and more wholesome than the bread and tea so commonly used now-a-days. It reminds me of what I heard my father say he heard a gentleman say: "There is no food can beat eggs, and butter, and new-milk (fresh milk) only that the poor class have these."

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2. Sowing of Potatoes (continued)

   

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   "Making sport for a baby one person would catch it by the shoulders and another by the legs, and swing it slowly from side to side (like a sack) while repeating: "Sac a sac a salainn, bró, bó, pinguin are a "gearcín" salainn"

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   Another rhyme for small child:
   Maoilín daedeh (?) (dhedjh)
   Cluísín chair
   Dá chair déarg ag iarraid comhairla
   Ag déanaim bróg do maoilín

   

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