School: Carnalassan (roll number 6106)
- Location:
- Carrownalassan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Eoghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 161
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- As I looked out my big bay window I saw the dead carrying the living?
A train.
As black as ink as white as milk, it hops on the wall like hailstones?
A magpie.
Which letters often talk about themselves?
The I's
Long legs, crooked thighs small head and no eyes?
A tongs.
As round as an apple as plump as a ball as high as Kilkenny cock feather and all?
The sun.
It's in the priest but not in the people, its in the church but not in the steeple, its in the rock but not in the stone its in the marrow but not in the bone?
The letter 'R'.
My hands are black and my face is white, I am always going from morning until night?
The clock.
Patches upon patches without any stitches?
A head of cabbage.
Black and white and read all over?
The paper.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Grange, Co. Roscommon
