School: Durrus, Bantry (roll number 13023)
- Location:
- Durrus, Co. Cork
- Teacher: L. Blennerhassett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0285, Page 160
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There was a man of Adam's race, he had a certain dwelling place, it was neither in Heaven nor in hell, nor in earth where mortals dwell. Who was he and where did he dwell?
Jonah was eaten by a whale.A man without eyes saw apples on a tree, he took no apples from it and no apples left he?
A man with one eye saw two apples on a tree he took one and there was one left.What turns without moving? MilkWhat wight is the moon?
One cwt, because there are four quarters in a cwt and there are four quarters in the moon.Lepper of ditches, treads on thorns, little brown dandy wearing no horns. A rabbitWhat goes all round the world' and leaves a white feather on every bush? The snow.There is an old woman in the ditch and if you go near her, she would give you the itch. A nettle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susannah Jane Pyburn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Pyburn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
