School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 129
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- 1 Says a child to his father how strange it does come that you are my father and I'm not your son?
- It was his daughter.
2 A man that married many a wife and yet himself lived single all his life. Now tell me if you can who is this very lucky man.
- A priest.
3 Why does the sea get angry.
- Because it is crossed so often.
4 What is it that never was nor never will be look at your finger and you will plainly see
- Your little finger will never be as big as the others
5 What is it, the more you take the more you leave behind.
- Your footsteps
- Collector
- Paul Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardamagh, Co. Cavan
