School: Ballydurrow
- Location:
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hadarnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0998, Page 294
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- (continued from previous page)(43) Five little brothers in a little leather carriage. They could not get out: they could not make a shout. It was so small and gloomy that they could not move about
(Your foot in a boot)
(44) Where can we always find happiness?
(In the dictionary)
(45) Why is pastry like the sun?
(Because when it rises, it is light)
(46) What is most like a cat's tail?
(A Kitten's)
(47) A woman found £2 and she then had three times as much as she would have had if she had lost £2?
(Ans. £4)
(48) If you plant a hedge of bushes each a yard apart. How many bushes will you need for a hedge fifty yards long?
(Ans 51 bushes)
- Collector
- John Hetherton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
