School: Ballyhaise (2)

Location:
Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 120

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    ends down? "A bag on a donkey's back"
    In my father's garden there grows a pretty plot: Four and twenty maidens are dancing in that. With their bonnets and bows, and pretty blue hats, If you are a fair maid, you'll riddle me that. " F lase."
    What is black and white and read, red all over? "The newspaper."
    The cow calved it, the hen laid it, and it grew in the wood, and the black-smith made it. "A bellows."
    Where was Edward Prince of Wales going on his 35th birthday?
    Into his thirty sixth year.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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