School: Aughaconey
- Location:
- Aghaconny, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 223
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- (continued from previous page)bush?
A mist.
What grows in the wood,
and rings in the town,
And earns his master many a pound?
A fiddle.How many feet have forty sheep, the shepherd and his dog? Two feet.What is it that a man loves more than life, hates more than death, the poor man spends, the spendthrift saves and everyone brings to the grave?
Nothing.As i was going to bed last night I saw the dead burying the live.
A person making the fire.As round as an apple,
As flat as a pan,
One side a woman,
And the other a man. A penny.In Aughaconey my name is sound,
In Knockanor I am to be found,
In Drumnalara i have often been,
But in Cormeen I have never been seen. The letter A.(continues on next page)
