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LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION.
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air inorich fhada do America ma Ttmatu; agus is bocM nach robh
agamsa na bheireadh air falbh mi Cuideachd.” Tharruing sinn a nunn
d’ an ionnsuidh ; oir tha mi ag aideachadb gu robh toil agam na
dapine so fhaicinn a bha an diugh a’ dol a ghabhail an cead deireannach
a dh’ Albainn, air t6ir duthcha far am faigheadh iad dachaidh dhaibh
fhein ’s d’ an teaghlaichean. Cha’n ’eil e comasach a thoirt air aon
duine nach robh ’s an lathair an sealladh a chunnaic mi a thuigsinn.
Cha fig an latha a thdid e as mo chuimhne. Bha iad an so eadar
bheag agus mh6r, o’n naoidhean nach robh ach seachdain a dh’ aois gus
an seann duine Hath a bha tri fichead bliadhna’s a deich.
15. 2. Translate into English me of the following:—
(a) Badan fraoich.
Ceud fhilt’ ort fhein, a bhadain fhraoich,
Bho thir nan aonach ard,
An tir a dh’ araich iomadh laoch,
Ge sgaoilt’ an diugh an al;
Tha snuadh mo dhuthcha air do ghruaidh,
Seasaidh tu fuachd is blaths :
’S e mheudaich dhomh cho m6r do luach
Gu’n d’ fiiuair mi thu bho’n Bhard.
(5) Ealadhna1 Dhonnachaidh Bhhin, am Bard.
Dheanainn duit ceann2 is crann3 ’s an Earrach
An am chur ghearran an eill;
Is dheanainn mar chach air traigh na mara
Cur aird air mealiadh an eisg;
Mharbhainn duit gebidh is rbin is eala,
’S na h-e6in air bharra nan geug;
’S cha bhi thu ri d’ bheb gun seol air t’ arah
’S mi chbmhnuidh far am bi feidh.
1 Accomplishments. 2 He who leads the horses.
8 Tne man who guides the plough.
20. 3. Reproduce, in Gaelic, and, as far as possible, in your own diction
and idiom, the passage read out.
25. 4. Translate into Gaelic one of the following passages
(a) Shinty.
The games of the boys were all athletic,1—throwing the hammer,
putting the stone, leaping, wrestling, and the like. But the favourite
game was “shinty,” called hockey, I believe, in England. This is
played by any number of persons, as many as a hundred often
engaging in it. Each has a club, or stick bent at the end, and made
shor °or° long, according, as it has to be used by one or both Hands.
The largest and smoothest field that can be found is selected for the
game. The combat lies in the attempt of each party to knock a ball
beyond a certain boundary in the opponents’ ground.^ The ball is
struck by any one on either side who can get at it. Few games are
more exciting, or demand greater physical exertion, than a good shinty
match.
Fearail;