School: St Columba's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 009
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- (continued from previous page)Why is a grasshopper like a watch? Because it goes with a spring.
What goes round the house and round the house with a barrow after it? a clocking hen and the birds.
What has four still standers, four down hangers, two lookers, two hookers, a licker and a lasher?
A cow.
I have a wee horse with an iron throat
The harder it gallops, it swallows the rope
A spinning wheel.
One day as I went up the hilll,
I met a black bull
It stuck and I fling.
If you had been there you would have seen the fun.
A big black thorn that stuck in my foot.
Two chicks in front of a duck, a chick between two ducks and two ducks behind a duck.
How many ducks is that?
Three ducks.
I went into an orchard. There were apples on a tree. I took no apples off and I left no apples on. How did I do it.
There were two apples on the tree and I took one off,
As white as milk, as red as blood, as green(continues on next page)
