School: Faythe (roll number 11361)
- Teacher: An tSr. Columcille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 127
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- Come in sir ! Sit down sir ! Have
a cup of tea sir ! no sir ! Why sir?
Because I have a cough sir !
Let me hear your cough sir !
Hem em em ! That's very bad sir
You should be in the bed sir !
and out goes she.
I knew a Washing Woman. She
knew me. I invited her to have a
cup of tea. No maam! Why maam?
Because I have a cold maam and
out goes she.
Cough Gulia. I cant Doctor.
Why Gulia? Because I have a cold
Doctor. A - hem - a hem Doctor.
Mrs Mason broke her basin on her
way to Dublin.
How much did the basin cost ?
One penny 2 pennies 3 pennies
4 pennies 5 pennies and so on.We say this rhyme when skipping.(continues on next page)
