School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 515
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VR. Said the father to the child. "How does it come, I am your father and your not my son.
A. Daughter.
R. I have a knife of ivory, it is bound all round with misery, it kills a bull and slays a bear and conquers all the birds in the air. A. Hunger.
R. Riddle me right, where I lay last night, all the bells in heaven struck at eleven under the but of an ivy tree. A. A child and a silk thread going to heaven.
R. A man looked at a photo on the wall he said, "Brothers and sisters I have none but that man's father is my father's son". A. Himself.
R. As I looked up what did I see only big Tom the thunder tearing the world asunder.
What is it? A. A harrow.
R. Little Finny Huddle sitting in a puddle a green gown and a yellow cap. What is it.
A. Flagger.
R. A fiddler in Cork, the fiddler in Cork had no brother a fiddler in Dublin.
What relation was the fiddler in Dublin to the fiddler in Cork. A. A sister.
R. . In comes four legs, takes up one leg up leapes two legs, takes up three(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maire Mc Garry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- James Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bryanmore Lower, Co. Westmeath
