School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0143, Page 029
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- (continued from previous page)As white as milk.
As white as a lily,
As white as snow.
As straight as a rush,
As straight as an arrow.
As straight as a knitting needle.
As thin as a knitting needle,
As thin as a wisp,
As thin as a air.
As fast as a spinning wheel.
As fast as an aeroplane
As fast as the wind,
As fast as a lightning.
As slow as a snail
As poor as a beggar
As poor as Job's cat,
As poor as Church Mouse.
As long as to-day and to morrow
As red as blood. As green as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gertrude Lynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Jordan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo
