School: Loughill, Longford
- Location:
- Laughil, Co. Longford
- Teacher: P. Ó Corcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 303
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- Round the house and round the house and a harrow after it.
A hen and clutch of chickens.
What is it that is neither inside the house nor outside?
A window.
Twenty sick sheep went out on a gap. One fell dead how many came back/
Nineteen.
If you fall from the top of a house what would you fall against first?
Against your will.
I have a little house and it cannot hold a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayor's house.
There they go, now they stand still.
Your teeth.
hingers and brass toes and upon my word she'd frighten the crows.
A gun.
I went to the woods to cut scollops. All I left behind me and all I didn't cut I brought them with me.
A man shaving.
What is the difference between a bankrupt and a feather bed
One is hard up and the other is soft down.
A king had built a ship and on that ship his daughter sits and I was blamed for telling her name an that is three times I have told it. What is her name?
Anne is her name.
I am a red man with a red coat and I am more afraid of a clocking hen than King George's men.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kevin Doherty
- Gender
- Male
