School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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- (continued from previous page)What is neither inside the house nor outside but yet is on the house? Windows. What is a herring worth when it is half eaten worth turning. The leaper of ditches, the clipper of thorns, the little bracked cow with the leather horns.a hare.What has a mouth and no head? A river.What lights and never burns. a bird
- I ran and I got it,
I sat down and I looked for it,
When I couldn't get it, I brought it with me. A thorn in a person's foot.Formed long ago yet made today,
Employed while others sleep,
What few would like to give away,
Yet no one would like to keep.A bedA little house full of meat, but
neither door nor window would let me in and eat?An egg(continues on next page)- Collector
- Walter O' Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Gault
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Skreeny, Co. Leitrim