School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 279
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- No 1. If a child comes late for school they say - The dillar, the dollar
The twelve o'clock scholar, or Late late go back and shut the gate.
No 2. If they see some magpies they say One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a wedding,
Four for a boy,
No 3. If one threatens to tell on another he says,
Tell tale, pick your nail,
Hang it on the cows tail.No 4. I'll tell when I go home,
The boys wont let the girls alone.
They tossed their hair and they broke their combs.
That will do till I go home.
No 5. Pulling a babys toes.
This wee pig went to the market,
This wee pig stayed at home.
This wee pig got bread and butter
This wee pig got none
This wee pig said squeek, squeek squeek
Give somen to wee deek.
No 6. When something is upcasted -(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Phil Joe Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
