School: Gallen
- Location:
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T.R. Goodwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)a hen from cackling.
(4) The longer it lives the shorter it will get.
A lighted candle
(5) There was a man he had no eyes.
He went out one night to view the skies
He saw a tree that apples grew on.
He neither took apples or left apples on
There were two on the tree and he left one.
- (1) What goes into the water red and comes out black?
A burning coal
(2) There is a little thing not as big as a mouse it has more windows than a gentleman's house(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Bell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glyn, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs J. Bell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Glyn, Co. Offaly
