School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 283
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- (continued from previous page)a woman an the other a man?
A penny.
As round as an apple a deep as a cup all the men in Derry would not lift it up?
A well.
Ink ank under the bank ten drawing four?
A woman milking a cow.
The more you take from it the bigger it gets?
A hole.
Little white nancy, a red little nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows?
A candle.
Who wears the biggest hat in the world?
The man with the bigger head.
A leaper of ditches a clipper of thorns a little brown cow with two leather horns?
A hare.
It is neither inside nor outside and shows light all over the house?
A window.
Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more after that then the shepherd and his dog how many feet was that?
Two.
A cailleact in the ashes and a hundred eyes on her?
A pot of soup.
Forty sheep went out a gap forty more after that, five, six, seven, eleven, to and three how many is that?
Five.
Twenty four white heifers standing by the wall up came the red one and licked them all?
The tongue licks the teeth.
It come in black and goes out white?
The turf.(continues on next page)
