School: Coracrin

Location:
Corracrin, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
E. Ní Dhuibhghlinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0960, Page 103

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    into it into the milk comes to a certain heat. then the milks turns to butter. it is cooled down softer a few minutes, then you put a beetle under one side of the churn and rocks the butter to lumps your churning is finished, If anyone enters when you are churning, should say God bless the work, and Good luck to the cows.
    Eileen Treacy Cornacrieve Emyvale.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. What is the differences between a tree and an aeroplane?
    Answer. One sheds leaves and the other leaves it shed.
    How many kinds of trees are there in a forest?
    Answer. Two crooked and straight,
    What goes round the wood and round and never touches the wood.?
    Answer. The dark of a tree.
    What is it that will go up the chimney down and will not go down the chimney up
    Answer an umberella.
    Why does a miller wear a white hat?
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Treacy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cornacreeve, Co. Monaghan