School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 400
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- (continued from previous page)got a great fall.
Answer An egg.
11. What is the most thing you ever saw like a horse
Answer A mare.
- 1. It grows in the wood it sings in the town it earns a shilling and many a crown. Answer = A fiddle.
2 .What is it that grows large the more you take from it? Answer A sand pit.
5. On the gravel I do travell, on the ocean I do stand, I rode the mare that never foaled and carried the bridle in my hand. Answer. A ship sailing.
4. It's neither flesh fish fowl or bone and I kept it till it walkes alone. Answer. An egg
5.Round the house and round the house and her family after her. Answer = A hen and chickens.
6. As white as snow and snow it(continues on next page) - Collector
- Molly Richards
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carha, Co. Mayo
