School: Drom Dhá Liag (C.) (roll number 12230)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhrisceoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0302, Page 067
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Riddle me riddle me Auntie O My father gave me some seeds to sow. The seeds began to grow like a basin full of snow. The snow began to melt like a soldier without a belt. The belt began to conquer like a ship with out an anchor. The ship began to sail like a bird without a tail. The bird began to fly like a needle in the sky. Through a rock through a reel through an old spinning wheel through a basin full of pepper through horse's shin-bone through a sheep's old trottle this was never known.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáitlín Ní Choileáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
