School: Cluainín (roll number 13231)
- Location:
- Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 093
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- (continued from previous page)and carried a boreen on my back? A ladder.
Two people went picking sticks the sticks they picked they throw them away, and the sticks they didn't pick they brought with them? Two crows picking feathers out of themselves.
What stick does not grow in a wood? A candlestick.
As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Davy. I cut off his head and left his body easy? A head of cabbage.
Why does a cow look over a fence? Because she could not look under it.
Twenty sick sheep went out a gap one died, and how many came back? Nineteen.
- Collector
- Maureen St John
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gurtnapisha, Co. Tipperary
