School: Mc Kelvey's Grove (roll number 9130)
- Location:
- Loughbrattoge, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Eva Campbell
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 248
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- Long legs crooked thighs, wee head and no eyes.
Pair of tongs.
A man had ninety nine patches on his trousers what times was it?
Time he had a new pair.
Spell "broken down ditch" with three letters.
Gap
What bears and never blossoms.
A crane.
What has eyes and cannot see?
A potato.
I saw a sight the other day, the nostrils began to spray and with his daily friend did meet, when standing on the open street, I have a stout and steady blow and bled ten gallons at the nose. It never seemed to faint or fall or give it any abuse at all?
A pump.
It grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound?
A fiddle.
Down in yon meadow I have a tree(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Dickson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tullintrat, Co. Monaghan
