School: Strandhill (Lár Easa)

Location:
Strandhill, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Mhic Guidhir
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  1. What weight is the moon.
    A hundred-weight because it has four quarters.
    Why is a sick man like a window
    Because he has a pain.
    A flock of white sheep on a red hill. Here they go there they go and now they stand still.
    The teeth in your gums.
    If I bought two tons of coal at ten shillings and six pence a ton. What would the coal come to.
    Ashes.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
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    English