School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)has no doors or windows to let me in to eat? An egg.
Where can happiness always be found?
In the dictionary.
What is the first thing you would do if you fell into the sea?
Get wet.
What is one half of the moon like?
The other half.
Three parts of an animal having long ears, three parts of a ling in the wide ocean spread, the half of a garter well tied under neath will spell you a town in the County Westmeath?
Mullingar.
There was a thing was four weeks old when Adam was no more, and before that thing was five weeks old Adam was five score? The moon.
A beautiful maid in a garden was laid she was as fair as the flowers in the morning the first day of her life she became a wife and she died before she was born? Eve.
What has a tongue but cannot utter a sound? A boot.
What goes most against a farmers grain? His reaper.
Teresa Maguire.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Joseph Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
