School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)
- Location:
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1098, Page 135
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- It is twice in a moment once in a minute, and not in a thousand years.
The Letter m.Why does a dog turn twice before he lies down. Because one good turn deserves another.Why does the cow look over the wall?Because she cannot look through it.What is it, that the poor man has, that the rich man has not, and the spendstrift keeps it, and the miser spends it, and the dead man cats it, and if a living man ate it, he would die. Nothing.You have a thing, and I have a thing and I use your thing oftener [sic] than I use my own. Your name.What is full of holes and holds water?
A sponge.It is black, and it is white, and is read all over. A newspaper.What is it that is in wool is not in sheep, it is in Wexford, and it is not in Clare. The letter wWhat trees never change when you(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
