School: Collon (Erasmus Smith) (roll number 16325)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Ní Earchadha
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- (continued from previous page)What is it Adam never had or never saw and still left two? Parents.
The man that made it didn't want it,
The man that bought it didn't use it,
The man that used it couldn't tell whether it fitted him ill or well? A coffin.
Tink-tank on the bank ten drawing four? A woman milking her cow.
What goes over a bone bridge with a brass whip driving it. A needle.
Forty sheep went out a gap forty more followed that, six, seven, ten, eleven, two and three how many is that? Five.
Two black men, and a white man were travelling to Howth in a car if the two blacks ate the white man what was the number of the car? 281.
How many feet have forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog? Two.
As I went up Tara hill Tara hill was shaking as I came down Tara hill Tara hill was lying? A field of corn being cut.
When I was in London I looked in a window and I saw two blind mice sitting on a cinder? Two rashers frying on a pan.
Long legs, short thighs little head and no(continues on next page)
