School: Cúl Umha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Cooloo, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Mhurchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 361
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- (continued from previous page)sheep - because there are more white sheep than black sheep.
As black as ink, as white as milk it hops on the road like a marble ball but a marble ball it is'ent - a mag-pie.
The more you take out the of it the bigger it is getting - digging.
Tis as little as little as a little wee mouse
there as many windows in it as a big Kings house - a thimble.
What is the [?] first thing Adam planted in the garden of Eden - his foot.
What is as big as a fly's eye - the other one.
There was once a man and he lived on an island and he had a cow and he wanted to get it across the island sea in a boat but it would cost him a penny. He had no penny, he stole did not steal any penny, he did not borrow any and still he got the cow across the sea but how did he do it - he had a half-penny and he borrowed another.
It is inside and it is outside and it is under the roof of the house - the window.
As I went out one evening gazing at the sky,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Póilín Ní Annáin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Mullaghmore North, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Mullaghmore North, Co. Galway
