School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 307
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- (continued from previous page)man. The two black men ate the white man what was the number of the car. "281"
What is the difference between a School Master, and a railway Guard?
"One trains the mind, and the other minds the train"
If you rode an ass for twenty miles where would you get "down"
"You would get down on a goose"
Under water long I lay neither sank nor swam away till experience made me tell th water made my body swell.
"A Rush in a River"
Read backwards or forwar and spelled just the same a neat town in Ireland now fin out my name "Navan"
The beginning of eternity the ending of each space. The beginning of every end, and the ending of every place.
"The letter E"
How would you compare a dog's tail to the roots of a tree?
"Because they are both far from the "bark" Round the house and round the house, and lies at the back door. "The Broom"
As round as an apple as fla as a pan one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Alice Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edergole, Co. Leitrim
