School: Castlecoote (roll number 6344)
- Location:
- Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghabhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 235
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- 1.If your uncle's sister isn't your aunt what relation is she to you?
Freagra. Your mother.
2.As round as an apple, as deep as a cup All the sea water could not fill it up.
Fr. A tailor's thimble.
3. One leg sitting on two legs. Two legs sitting on three legs. In comes four legs, snaps up one leg. Up jumps two legs, catches hold of three legs, with which he strikes four legs and rescues one leg.
Fr. A dog seizing a leg of mutton from a butcher sitting on a 3 legged stool.
4.Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire
Fr. A cake in an oven.
5. Hurry up! Hurry up! to see the wonders Twenty four pots boiling and no fire under.
Fr. A spring well
6. A little red cow sitting under a wall, giver her hay, giver her straw, giver her water and all. For she will die, why?
Fr. A fire
