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School: Muine Chonnalláin B.

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Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Lochnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 306

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    A fiddler in Cork had a brother a fiddler in New York but the fiddler in New York had no brother a fiddler in Cork. Ans= the fiddler in Cork was a girl.
    It goes round the wood and round the wood and it never goes into the wood. Ans= the bark of a tree.
    If I got sixpence for walking ten miles what would I get to walk a hundred miles. Ans sore feet
    If you paid 18s 6d for a poker, shovel, and a tongs what would a ton of coal amount too. Ans=ashes
    If there were two black men and a white man in a car, if the two black men ate the white man what was the number of the car. Ans two eight one.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Val Conricode
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrownlabaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Frank Gallagher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrownlabaun, Co. Mayo