School: Ceann Locha (roll number 11749)
- Location:
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Matilda Bolster
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 364
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- (continued from previous page)Cork.
What is that, which cannot run though it always has three feet?
a yard.
What leads to every house and sleeps out at night?
a patch.
A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a little brown cow with two leather horns?
a hare.
What goes through the wood and never touches it?
A knife in a man's pocket.
There are four brothers long, and these four brothers work together, if one of these should chance to die the other three lie idle by?
Knitting needles.
What goes through the wood and leaves a rag in every bush?
Snow.
Up chip cherry down chip cherry, all the men in Derry could not climb chip cherry?
Smoke.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Matilda Bolster
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
