School: Balrath (1) (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Pharthaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 279
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- If you met a girl on the road and part of her frame was some, it would tell you what kind of a girl she was.
Ans. Handsome.
If you met the same girl on the road and cut the head off two insects the tail would tell you what kind of a girl she was.
Ans. Ugly.
A man had three dogs, Trip, Tray and Traveller, and which was the bitche's name.
Ans. Which.
As round as a griddle, as flat as a pan one side a woman, the other side a man.
Ans. A penny.
What goes round the house, and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night.
Ans. A brush.
Ten men's length
Ten men's strength(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carlanstown, Co. Westmeath
