School: Windgap (C.), Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Bearna na Gaoithe, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 278
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- (continued from previous page)poor man passing by and he wrote under it.
As you are now so once was I,
As I am now so will you be,
Prepare yourself and follow me.
answer.
"To follow you I'm not content,
For I don't know which way you went."
The next poem was written on a placard outside a public house and a man was passing along and he wrote under it.
"If you are dry come in and try
the flavour of my honey,"
answer.
"Oh, I am dry and cannot try
the flavour of your honey,
For if I go in the old bee will sting,
Because I have no money."
- Collector
- Mai Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
