School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 372
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- What goes round the house and round the house and peeps in on every corner? The Sun
In marble hall as white as milk.
Lined with silk as soft as silk.
Within a fountain crystal clear.
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors are her on this stronghold.
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold?An eg.
What does a well made shoe want? A comrade
How many hairs in a cats tail? None
Why is pepper like having a cold? Because it makes you sneeze.
Forty sheep went out a gap.
Forty more came back.
Six. Seven. ten. eleven.
Two and three how many is that? Five.
Why is twice ten the same as twice eleven.
Because twice ten is twenty and twice eleven is two.
Why is a pig such a curious creature?
Because you cant cure it [?] till its killed.
Why is there never such a thing as one whole
Because it begins by breaking.
Little white Nancy with a red nose the longer she lives the shorter she grows? A candle
What is taken from you before you get it?
A photograph.(continues on next page)
