School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 062
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- 1. I went to the wood and got it, I sat down and sought it, and as I could not get it home with me I brought it
A thorn in my foot
2. What is it that no - body cares to have yet no - body cares to lose?
A bald head
3. Why is an engine driver like a school master?
Because one minds the train and the other trains the mind
4. In comes two legs, sits on three legs, takes one leg across his knee, in comes four legs, snaps up one leg, up jumps two legs flings three legs, tosses four legs, and gets his own leg back.
A dog snapping a leg of ham from a man.
5. I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse and there are as many windows on it as are on the king's house
A thimble.
- Collector
- Eileen Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Pat Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
