School: Baile Theas (C.), Malla (roll number 4954)
- Location:
- Ballyhass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bríd Bean Uí Dhála
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 021
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- (continued from previous page)A mouse can't live in it and all the men in town cannot count the windows in it
A thimble
As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Davy I cut off his head and left his body easy
Head of cabbage or bottle of stout
What is it that the more you put into it the lighter it would get
Putting holes in a barrel.
Two little ladies dressed in white one got the fever and died last night
Two candles
Where was Moses when the light went out
In the dark
Its black its white its read all over.
A newspaper
House full room full you cant catch a spoon full
Smoke
It opens like a barn door it closes like a trap
a fool will think of many things but will you think of that
A scissors
How many wells would make a river
One if it was big enough
What turns without moving
Milk(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Chrissie Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
