School: Ardfinnan (B.), Cahir (roll number 16077)
- Location:
- Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: W. J. Nugent
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0571, Page 123
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- Twenty sick sheep went out a gap one died and how many came back
(Answer nineteen.)
Two dead men fighting, two blind men looking on, two cripples running for a doctor, two dummies shouting hurry on
(Answer_A lie.)
Ink, ank, under a bank ten drawing four.
(Answer_A woman milking a cow.)
As black as ink, as white as snow, hops in the hills like hailstones
(Answer A Magpie.)
Twenty sheep upon a gap twenty more on top of that six and seven twice eleven three and two how much is that.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edmond O Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Miss Mary Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 32
- Address
- Midleton, Co. Cork
