School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 191
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- (continued from previous page)The house is full of it and still I can not get a spoonful? Smoke.
What has the most heads at the fair? The nails of your shoes.
Around about the house, and it lies in the corner? A twig.
It comes in a lump on your back and goes out as fine as silk? Turf.
Constantinople is a very long word, spell "it". It.
London, Derry, Cork and Kerry, spell me "that" without a K? That.
What is higher than the King? His crown.
- As I went out the garden gate I met my uncle Teddy, I cut off his head and left his body easy? A head of cabbage.
As black as ink, ink it isn't, As white as milk,(continues on next page) - Collector
- Janie Mc Neill
- Address
- Cloonadarragh, Co. Galway
