School: Clocháin (Cloghans) (roll number 16170)
- Location:
- Cloghans, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 618
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- 1) Which is that, that brings you to town without moving
The road.
2) Long legs, crooked thighs a small head and no eyes.
The tongs.
3) What side of the jug is the handle.
The outside.
4) Four little brothers thin and tall, one would not do without them all.
Knitting needles.
5) Thirty sheep went out a gap thirty more followed, then followed that six seven ten eleven three and two how many is that
Five.
6) If a fellow met a fellow in a field of beans If a fellow asked a fellow what a fellow means how many “fs” in that. No “F” in that.
