School: Broca
- Location:
- Brockagh Lower, Co. Leitrim
- Teachers: T. Ó Chioráin S. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0198, Page 342
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- As I went through a field of wheat I picked up something good to eat. It was neither fish, flesh, blood not lone but I kept it till it walked its lone?
An Egg.
Four stidd standers, four down hangers, two lookers, two crookers and a swagger?
A Cow.
A head like a thimble and a tail like a rat. you would guess for ever but you could not guess that.
A Pipe.
It is black, it's white and read all over?
A Newspaper.
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, a split in the middle and hair round it all.
An Eye.
A girl has it, a boy hasn't it. Luke has it before, Paul has it behind and Micky Kelly has it twice in one spot?
The letter "L"
Patches upon patches with no sticks?
A head of Cabbage.
What goes up the ladder with its head down?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonaghmore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Margaret Kenny
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sranagross, Co. Leitrim
