School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 247
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- A poker and tongs are worth sixpence what will an ass load of turf come to
Ashes
The king of Morocco say in a ship
An' in that ship his daughter sat
An' I'd be blamed if I told her name
An' that's three times I've told it.
Ann.
How would you spell the red theif of the world in three letters. Fox
What never was and never will be.
Look at your hand and you will plainly see.
Your five fingers the same length.
Spell a broken down ditch in three letters
Gap
Hairy in Hairy out and Hairy into Hairy's mouth
A man putting on his woolly socks.
what hangs in the air and never blossoms
A Crook.
A small wee thing smaller than a mouse.
But it has more windows than the king's house.
A thimble.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una David
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr Lonegan Buggawn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
