School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)

Location:
Stormanstown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Ó Ceallaigh
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    40 I have a little house and it wouldn't hold a mouse and there are as many windows on it as Lord Louth's (the Lord Mayor's) house?
    - a thimble.
    N.B. - Louth Hall, the residence of Lord Louth, is in the parish.
    41 I have a little house that holds hundreds and hundreds and it wouldn't hold myself in my clothes
    - A beehive.
    42 I have a little sister cvalled Peepety Peep
    Under the water ever so deep,
    Over the water ever so high,
    My poor little sister is blind of an eye.
    - A star
    43 There is a thing without which is too short; take a bit off and it will be long enough.
    - A grave.
    44 (1) Four stick standers
    (2) Four diddly-anders
    (3) Two stickers, a (4) licker and a (5) scutcher
    - A cow: (1) legs; (2) teats; (3) horns; (4) tongue; (5) tail
    45 It was sent to India and stopped there.
    It was sent back from India because it never went there.
    - A watch
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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