School: Glin (C.) (roll number 3232)
- Location:
- Glin, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0480, Page 311
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- (continued from previous page)18. As I went out a slippery gap. I met my uncle Davey. He cut off my head, and left my body easy.A head of cabbage.
19. What walks with its head down?
A nail in your boot.
20. If a fellow met a fellow in a fellow's field. If a fellow asked a fellow, what a fellow means. How many "F's" in that.There is no "F" in that.
21. What is the most valueless thing a boy could have in his pocket.A hole.
22. Which is right. Are yolks of eggs white, or is yolks of eggs white.Yolks of eggs are yellow.
23. Jenny with the white dress. Jenny with red nose. The longer she lives, the shorter she grows?A candle.
24. As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on the roads like hail stones.Magpies.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Shúilleabháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caheragh, Co. Limerick
