School: Kilflynn, Lic Snámha (roll number 15033)
- Location:
- Kilflyn, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Hallmhúráin
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- (continued from previous page)uncle Davy. I cut off his head, and left his body nacked. A head of cabbage.
As I was sitting on London bridge I saw a ship sailin. There was thousands of people and when it came there was not a single person in it? They were all married.
A King from Manchester sent home to his sister a bottomless vessel for holding fat meat. A ring.
Six tea boxes were up in a shed one fell off and how many were left? Five.
As I went into a field I touched a thing and it was neither flesh nor bone nor skin. An egg.
What is that when its eye falls out it has nothing but an nose. A needle.
I have a little red Kerry cow she is tied to the wall if you gave her all the world she would drink it all. A lamp.
Long shanks father big belly mother three little children and they all the same colour. A pot.
