School: Cill Moibhí (C.) (roll number 13081)
- Location:
- Kilmovee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 124
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“Delaney from the market bought a fowl a month ago If he meets the man that sold it, he will kill him with a blow...”
(continued from previous page)the towel of Babel.
Was fed by Cain and Abel and loved in Noah's stable
All shots that were fired at the field of Waterloo
Couldn't penetrate or dislocate the clongated, amour-plated, double-breasted, corn-chested,
Cock, a doodle, do.Delaney brought the chicken just to give us all a spread.
On Sunday when the guests arrived he went clean off his head
In the yard were picks and shovels that were twisted up like tin
That he tried to carve the chicked with but couldn't break the skin
We borrowed Dalys hammer with which he rams the stones
And thought one gentle tap of it would break the thender chickens bones
At the first blow t rebounded like an Indian's rubber ball
And knocked ten yards of coping of Mulhannys garden wall.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mollie Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Annie E. Tully
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raherolus, Co. Mayo