School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)In comes two legs carrying one leg which he lays down on three legs. Back comes two legs, snatches up three legs, and throws it after four legs to get back one leg.
Answer. A man comes in with a leg of multon which he lays on a three-legged stool. a dog runs off with the leg of multon The man returns + throws the stool at the dog to make him drop the leg of multon.
- The beginning of eternity, the end of time + space, the the beginning of every end and the end of every race. The letter "e"
Old mother Dwitchett had but one eye
And a long tail which she let fly:
And every time she went over a gap,
She left a bit of her tail in a trap. A needle and thread.As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman, the other a man. A penny
A dog has 4 legs, a chicken two, what has one? A stocking.
What is it that the more you take from it, the larger it gets? A hole
what is the dirtiest letter in the alphabet? O because it is twice in soot.
What is the longest word in the ong. Language. Smiles because there is a mile between the 1st + last letter. - Collector
- Joan Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Wilson Strawbrick
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
