School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- As I looked out the gee-go window I saw the ree-ra in the rantam peck, I called hector come pector to shake the ree-ra out the rantam peck.
A ram in a cabbage garden.Head like a thimble, tail like a rat, you may guess for ever and ever but you will never guess that.
A man's pipe.It is over the fire and under the fire but it does not touch the fire.
Cake in a oven.Why does the hen pick the pot.
Because she can not lick it.Why does the cow look over the wall.
Because she could not look under it.The man that makes it never wears it but the man that wears it never(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
