School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0527, Page 308
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- (continued from previous page)10. Jenny inside the wall Jenny outside the wall and if you touch Jenny she will bite you? A nettle.
11.
Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a K? That
12.
Twenty sick sheep went out a gap. One died and how many came back? 19
13.
As black as ink and ink it isn't and it hoops on the road like hailstones? Magpie.
14.
As I went out a slippery gap I met my Uncle Davey. I cut off his head and I left his body aisy (easy)? A head of cabbage.
15.
It's black, its white and its read all over? A Newspaper.
16.
Why is a queen like a piece of wood? Because she is a ruler.
17. There are people going down the road and they are not men women or children? A man woman an child.
18. What is the hotest letter in the alphabet? B because it makes oil boil.(continues on next page)
