School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 280
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- (continued from previous page)Shake hands brother,
Your'e a rogue and I'm another
You stole the beef and I stole the bone
Lick thumbs and leave it along.
No 7. When a child stumbles and falls
Paddy Whack broke his back,
Jumping across a cow's track.
No 8. Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Late to bed and late to rise,
Makes a man beg before he dies.
No 9. Put a twig standing up in a heap of ashes and move the ashes away by
degrees saying -
Shave the poor fellow to make him be mellow,
Cut off his beard to make him affreard
If the poor fellow chances to fall,
My poor back will pay for all.
No 10. My wife shes a rascal,
I'll tell you what she did,
She upset the cradle,
And she nearly killed the kid.
No 11. Saturday night my wife she died,
Sunday she was buried,
Monday was my moving day,
Tuesday I got married,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Phil Joe Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
