School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 194
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- In a garden there was laid a most beautiful maid, as fair and as fresh as the morning. The first hour of her life she became a sweet wife and she died before she was born.
Eve.
A fiddler in Mayo had a brother a fiddler in Meath, but the fiddler in Meath had no brother in Mayo. How was that ?
The fiddler in Mayo was the other fiddlers sister.
A room with eight corners, a cat in each corner, seven cats for for each cat , a cat on each cat's tail . How many cats in the room ?
Eight cats.
If a fellow met a fellow in a field of green could a fellow tell a fellow what a fellow means . How many f's in that ?
None.
As round as a marble, as flat as a pan,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duleek Street, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr O. Murray
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Duleek Street, Co. Louth
