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School: Aughaconey

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Aghaconny, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Mac Síomóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 224

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    What goes round the houser and round the house and leaves a loaf in every window? The snow.
    Six by three is my degree,
    No house is right without me,
    Turn me back the other way,
    And I am forty pench exactly. A door.
    What has an eye but cannot see?
    A needle.
    What goes round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night? The brush.
    Long tall thin and yellow,
    God bless us such a fellow. A candle.
    As I went up Tara hill,
    Tara hill was shaking,
    As I came down Tara hill,
    I saw three devils eating.
    Three mice in a stack of oats.
    What goes up a ladder with its head down? a nail in a man's foot.
    As I went over Westminster hill,
    I met a Westminster scholar.
    He took off his coat,
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