School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0041
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- (continued from previous page)Why does a cow look over the wall?
Because she can't look under it.
Why does a bull dribble? Because he can't spit.
A hundred sheep went out a gap a shepherd and his dog. How many feet went out the gap? Two feet.
Four nelly landers and four step standers two whoopers two loopers and a whip about? Milking a cow.
Rolly lowly sitting on the wall rolly lowly got a great fall, all the kings's horses and all the kings men could not make it into rolly lowly again?
An egg.
What's too short and when there is a bit cut off it's long enough? A grave.
A Tin tank under a bank ten drawing four? A woman milking a cow.
Two brothers we are; great burdens we bear to whom we are bitterly pressed. We are full in the day and empty when we go to rest? A pair of stocking.
Here I sit; far I see a blackbird's nest in a holly tree. Conquer the bull and conquer the bear and conquer all the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pauline Hardiman
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Kilmacrah, Co. Galway
