School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0163
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- (continued from previous page)Smiles.
Because there's a mile between the first and last letters.
85. What is the most dangerious time of the year?
Spring.
86. What's always behind time.
The back of the clock.
87. Hour many beaks does a hen put on the ground when she is eating ten grains of wheat.
One.
88. A clipper of ditches a cutter of thorns; a little brown cow with two leather horns.
A Rabbit.
89. Black and white and read all over.
A Newspaper.
90. From house to house and goes into no house.
A path.
91. When I was born my uncle he.
Five pounds in gold he gave to me.
Every time my birthday comes he never failed to do the same.
Just when I was twenty four
I had thirty pounds and nothing more.
What date was I born.
Twenty ninth of February.(continues on next page)
