School: Richmond (roll number 14400)
- Location:
- Richmond, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 018
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- (continued from previous page)"6. What can make more noise at a gate than a pig .
Pigs.
7. Thirty white sheep on a red hill , here they go . there they go , now they stand still .
Teeth in the gums.
8. As I went over London bridge I met a London scholar an drew his name across the bridge , what was it .
Andrew .
9. Why is a policeman on duty like Pat rolling a hill .
Because the policeman is patrolling also.
10. Why is a little man like a good book .Because he is often looked over .
11. Why is a little dog's tail like the heart of a tree .
Because it is farthest from the bark.
12. East , West , North , South , two hundred teeth and no mouth .
A hand wool card .
13. Everything has it even a pipe .
A name.
14. It grows in the wood and it sounds in the town and it earns its master many a crown.
A fiddle."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Elizabeth Herbert
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlabaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Herbert
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlabaun, Co. Mayo
