School: Gleann Éada (roll number 8537)
- Location:
- Glenade, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaolaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 049
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- (continued from previous page)middle and hair round it all. One's lcye. A leaper of ditches a clipper of thorns a little brown cow with two leather horns. A Hare.
Why do you go to bed? Because the bed won't come to you. What goes through the wood and through the wood and leaves a rag on every bush? Snow.
Why does a dog lick a pot? Because he can't pick it.
An S. and an L. an I. in the middle and go, tell me the riddle. Sligo.
Why does a hen pick a pot? Because she can't lick it.
As round as an apple as plump as ball and can climb the chapel over steeple and all. The Sun.
How much meal would make a pot of stirabout? As much as would thicken it.
When is a building like a bird? When it has wings.
Everything has it and so has a needle. A Name(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bean Uí Mhaolaith
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Glenade, Co. Leitrim
