School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)
- Location:
- Cill Chuillinn, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 272
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- (continued from previous page)The hare is allowed to dodge anywhere. When the hare is caught a new one is chosen, and the game continues.
- 1. Eena, Meena, Mink, Ponk,
Chink, Chonk, ooza, vooza,
Vaka, vah, vee, vi, vo. - 2. As I went up a Chinese lane,
I met some Chinese Children,
This is the way they spoke to me,
Visa, Visa, Bonngo, Bongo, Bongo,
Out she goes. - 3. Onery, Twory, dickory, dairy,
Hollo, becrakery, Jenery Lery,
Dish cun diamond, merry combined,
Humbly, Bumbly: twenty nine.
Willie the Watch-man
Had a good water-dog,
He could both shoot kill hens,
And stick them on pins,
Some laid eggs and more laid none - Collector
- Lilian Berney
- Gender
- Female
