Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

Date
1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0171

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0171

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  1. (no title) (continued)

    I have a little sister she lives in the ditch...

    (continued from previous page)
    (2) LIttle thing little thing less than a coal
    there's none of it white except its arse hole
    A Black Berry
    (3) Hivagate havagate over gate hang there's nothing so wide or nothing so long as hivagate havagate over gate hang.
    The Sky
    (4) I have a little sister she's red and she's yella, she's slate coloured green and the king couldn't touch her no more than the queen.
    The rainbow.
    (5) As I was going up the hill of Dullenlines
    I met a pretty picka pack a pines
    They were nicka they were nacka, they were white and yella tracka
    And such a pretty picka packa pine's
    I never met going up the hill of Dullenlines
    A Swarm of Bees.
    (6) I saw a tree with apples on, I took no apples off and I left no apples on
    How was that?
    There were two apples on
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script