Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 075
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“This is a rhyme that a person must say without drawing his breath.”
This is a rhyme that a person must say without drawing his breath.
There's six wild paycocks flying in the air.
I wonder very much what brought 'em there
I don't know nor I don't care.
Six wild bears four running hares
Three black weasels two white ewes
A grey goose and off she goes. This is another that must be said without drawing the breath.
On yonder field there is a hill, a tree on the hill, a bough in the tree a twig on the bough, anest on the twig an egg in the nest a bird in the egg and feathers on the bird. Feathers on the(continues on next page)