School: Drom Bhaoghalláin (roll number 7981)
- Location:
- Ardcarn, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Pagnam
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0231, Page 229
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I. There was a man of Adam's race, he had no certain dwelling place, hell earth or any other place that man could dwell in.
(Jonas lived in the whales's stomach for three days)
II It's round, it's sound, it's just a pound and it would not weight an ounce.
(A sovereign)
III What is it that never asks questions yet requires many answers?
(The door bells
IV Never was and never will be, put out your hand and you will plainly see
(None of your fingers of the same length
V Neither flesh, feather, wing nor bone never crosses the hill alone.
(The moon never crosses without the stars)
VI Goes in dry comes out wet the longer its in the stronger it gets,
(Tea)
VI Said the son to the father how did it come that you are my father and I'm not your son?
(It was the priest he was talking,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Morrison
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Roscommon
