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School: Sráid na Cille, Cathair Dhún Iascaigh (roll number 15184)

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An Chathair, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
Déoirín Ní Ragháil
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    As I went out between two gaps. I met my Auntie Joany, she had an iron nose and timber toes and upon my words she would frighten the crows?
    A gun.
    When are stockings like dead me?
    When they are mended(dead men)
    If Paddy the English man, Paddy the Scotch man and Paddy the Irish man had an umbrella and two of them were it under it who got wet?
    None, it was not raining.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Fox
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loch Luachra, Co. Thiobraid Árann