School: Lochán na mBan (roll number 7816)
- Location:
- Loughaunnaman, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0099, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)25 On your tenth birthday where do you go = Into your eleventh year.
26 Why doesn’t a man walk straight on a road = Because the road is not straight.
27 Flys high fly low wears shoes and has none = A football.
28 Annie Mac Rocky sent to her Aunt Ann for a bottomless vessel to put flesh and blood in = A ring
29 As long as ten men as strong as ten men and yet one man can carry it = A cart rope.
30 As I was going to London I saw a great wonder twenty four bull dogs tearing up the grass of London = A harrow.
31 When does water stop running down a hill = When it is at the bottom.
32 When I was going to London I met a London po and in the po there was a man = a policeman.[ poleasman (sic)]
33 Under gravel i did travel with an oak stick in my hand I rode a mare that never foaled and I carried the bridle in my hand = A train(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughaunnaman, Co. Mayo
