School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 207
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- Q. I have but one horn I am no unicorn I give sweet milk and I am no kerry cow, but grand ma loves me and round the board shooves me with a smile of content on her brow.
A. Tea-pot.
Q. Forty sheep went through a gap twenty white and twenty black six and seven ten and elleven two and three how many is that. A. 5.
Q. Riddle me riddle me randy row my father gave me seeds to sow the seeds were black and the ground was white riddle me that until to-morrow night.
A. One writing with black ink on white paper.
Q. If you had only one match which would you light the candle the gas or the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Molloy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyremon Commons, Co. Wicklow
