School: Lower Warren (roll number 7793)
- Location:
- Warren Lower, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Liam Mac Coiligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 256
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- (continued from previous page)12) Why is a wicked woman like a match?
Because she flares up.
13) A head and a foot and four feet. A bed.
14) I see said the blind man a hole in the wall your a lier said the dummy you can't see at all. A lie.
15) Lazy father good mother and twelve black children. A Clock.
16) Big belly mother, long leged gather and three black children. A pot.
17) I know two men, and one is able to run twelve times quicker than the other. The hands of the Clock.
18) As I looked out the window I saw a dead thing carrying the alive. A boat.
- Collector
- Fred Hughes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bealin, Co. Westmeath
