School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 358
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- (continued from previous page)A wee thing headless comes to the door. It is footless and says "keep away your hens and ducks but I am not afraid of your dogs.
A Worm.What is neither inside nor outside but is of use to the house.
The Window.The man that made it, did not want it, the man that bought it did not use it the man that used it did not see it.
A Coffin.No body wants it and any one that has it would not part it for the world.
A bald head.As black as ink as white as milk and hops on the road like hailstones.
A Magpie.Twelve black sisters in a row a lazy mother a working father and a noisy brother.
A Clock.As I went over London bridge I met a London scholar he took off his hat and drew off his gloves tell me the name of the scholar
AndrewWhat walks with its head in the ground.
A nail in a mans shoe.(continues on next page)
