School: Broadford, Ráthluirc
- Location:
- Broadford, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Guagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0491, Page 096
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- (continued from previous page)"My father gave me some seeds to sow
They were black and the ground was white
And riddle me that before tonight?
(Ink and paper)"I have a little house,
And a mouse couldn't live in it
And all the men in town
Couldn't count all the windows in it?
(A thimble)"As I went out a slippery gap
I met my uncle Davy
I cut off his head
And left his body go easy"
(A head of cabbage growing in a garden)What is it that goes from here to Cork and never stirs? (A road)"What are the three things that cannot be got in this world?
(A sheet for the bed of the ocean, a shoe for the foot of the mountain, and a towel to wipe the face of the earth)(continues on next page)
