School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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- I'm hard and I'm soft
I'm long and I'm round
No greater wonder has ever been found.
11.
I've no head or feet
Q
1
And yet I can amage?
By growing them both
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In twenty -one days
I live in a house
But should I go out
1v
I cannot return
So I must live within
I set when I'm hot
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And many you have eaten
And like many girls
I'm better when beaten.A = An egg.(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballydangan, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Bernard Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballydangan, Co. Roscommon