School: Iorball Sionnaigh (roll number 16923)
- Location:
- Scotstown, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0956, Page 020
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What has one eye and can't see?......needle.
What is full and holds more?...A pot of potatoes.
Londonderry,Cork and Kerry.Spell that without a K...........That.
Old Adam in his age comes rocking in his cage.All his children dead with age and he alive and lusty?.........An apple-tree.
What goes round the tree and never goes into it?.........The bark.
What is white and black and read all over?..........A newspaper.
As black as ink and as white as snow and hops the road like hailstones?......A magpie.
A jumper of ditches,a clipper of thorns.A wee brown cow with leathery horns?......A hare.
They sent for the wiseman who(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumdesco, Co. Monaghan
