School: Greaghglass (roll number 11011)
- Location:
- An Ghréach Ghlas, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Mrs. Ross
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0957, Page 049
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- What goes round the world and leaves a white rag in every hedge?
The snow.
What goes round the wood and never goes inside it?
Thread on a spool.
Why is a wood like a luggage van?
Because it is full of trunks.
Chip chip cherry, All the men in Derry, could not climb chip chip cherry.
The smoke.
There was a certain man of Adam's race. He had a certain dwelling place. It was neither in heaven, in earth, or in hell, nor any place that man could dwell.
Jonah in the whale's belly.
Ink and under a bank, ten drawing four?
Milking a cow.
Spell "broken down ditch" in three letters?
Gap.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Lyster
- Gender
- Female
