School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote
- Location:
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)6 I had a little sister called Peepity pee.
She could climb the sky however high.
She could stand on the sea however deep.
Answer - My Shadow7 Itty atty on the wall,
Itty atty got a fall,
Six score men and manymore
Could not make ittty atty as it was before
Answer - Egg
8 What never was not never will be.
Look at your hand and you will see
Answer - Your thumb as long as your finger.
9 One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead men got up to fight
To blind men were looking on
Two cripples ran for the police
Two dummys shouted hurry up
Answer - A lie
- Collector
- Kathleen Dyer
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Frank Dyer
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo
