School: Castlecoote (roll number 6344)

Location:
Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Ghabhláin
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  1. How many kinds of timber grow in a wood?
    Freagra. Crooked & straight
    Everything has it and so has a pen.
    Fr. An inside and outside.
    Compare a dog and a log of wood.
    Fr. Both have barks.
    Father McCann came in and sat on a stool
    He pulled out a very long tool.
    He called it a fool,
    It wasn't a fool or any such thing,
    But many a black hole it ever ran in.
    Fr. A writing-pen.
    The longer it lives the shorter it grows.
    Fr. A candle
    What is it that went to the North Pole and stopped there. It came away and couldn't stay there.
    Fr. A watch in a man's pocket
    Neither within nor without and it serves the house.
    Fr. A window.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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