School: Dunmanus, Toormore
- Location:
- Dunmanus East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Helena Lucey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 144
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It opens like a barn door it shuts like a trap you would often think of man[?] but you would never think of that.?
A Scissors2.
As round as an apple, as deep as a pail, it never cries out until it is caught by the tail.?
A church bell. 3.
Little thing, little thing less than a mouse it has more windows than a king's house.? Thimble.4.
Two black men and a white man went motoring, and the two black men ate the white man what was the number of the motor car? 281.5.
The bleat of a lamb and the honey of a bee put them together and spell it for me? Mahoney.6.
Black and white and red all over?
A newspaper.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Walsh
- Gender
- Female
