School: Cnapach
- Location:
- Knappagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hionruaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 125
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- (continued from previous page)that never was rained or run and I dried my hands in a towel that never was woven or spun. I washed my hands in the morning dew, and dried them in the sun.There is a table in yon meadow its not made of ash, oak, or yew or any other sort of timber that ever grew and Devalara could eat his dinner of it. A table of Ice.Two arms a body a neck and no head. A mans Shirt.The man that made it didnt want it the man that bought it did not use it and the man that used it never saw it. A Coffin.What is it that if too short you cut a bit of it and it will be long enough. A Grave.When is a chicken's neck like a bell. When it is wring for dinner.What has legs but cannot walk and feathers but cannot fly. A bed.When is a sheep not a sheep.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corleckduff, Co. Cavan
