School: Stackallen (roll number 1309)
- Location:
- Stackallan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: P.T. Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)when Adam was four score?
The moon.
What is it has four legs and only one foot?
A bed.
What is it you cut a bit off to make it longer?
A grave.
From filly and flax tail?
A needle and thread.
What is the shyest thing in the world?
A clock, because it always has its hands on its face?
As I was going out my grand-father's gap I met a little red chap and he more afraid of a cock or a hen than King George and all his men?
A worm.
Yink, yank on the bank, then drawing four?
A person milking a cow.
There was a man that had no eyes and he went out to view the skys, he saw a tree with apples on he took no apples and he left no apples on?
He had only one eye and he pulled one apple and he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rochestown, Co. Meath
