School: Broca
- Location:
- Brockagh Lower, Co. Leitrim
- Teachers: T. Ó Chioráin S. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0198, Page 340
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- (continued from previous page)I'm not your son.
It was a daughter that said it.
A duck before two ducks a duck behind two ducks a duck in the middle between two ducks how many ducks is that
Three ducks.
What is the longest word in the English language?
Smiles, because there is a mile between the first and last letter.
Long legged father big bellied mother three little children as small as each other.
A pot.
Hink Hank under a bank ten drawing four
Milking a cow.
Black and white and read all over.
A Newspaper.
Wat is it that has no legs and yet can run.
A river.
What goes through the wood and through the wood and never touches the wood.
A knife in a man's pocket.
I have two ends in the river and one in the air in lakes, ponds or ditches you will not find me there.
The letter R.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila Keany
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sranagross, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Keany
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sranagross, Co. Leitrim
