School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)
- Location:
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 412
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- (continued from previous page)round came the peddlar and swore it was a saddlerr and stole my wee pappet away? A watch.
10) How can you compare a lady to a drunkard? Because they both are fond of the glass.
11) What is the strongest thing in the world? A snail because it can carry its house with it.
12) What flies without wings? The wind.
13) Four stiff standers, four down hangers two lookers two cookers and a switcher? A cow.
14) I have a wee house it would not hold a mouse and there are as many windows in it as in the king's house? A sewing thimble.
15) A skipper of ditches a leaper of thorns. a wee brown cow with a leather pair of horns? A rabbit.
16) King Morrock built a ship and in the ship his daughter sat and I am blamed for telling her name and that is three times I told you? Ann.
17) What goes round the house and round the house and peeps into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susie Mac Cole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
