School: Barkhall (roll number 8343)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: J. L. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 336
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In the garden was laid a pretty fair maid as fair as the dew in the morn, the first day of her life she was made a wife, and she died before she was born.
Eve.
There was a man of Adam's race he had a certain dwelling place, it was neither in Heaven Earth nor Hell nor any places where men do dwell
Jonah in the whale's belly.
The King of Morocco sent to Queen Ann a bottomless tube to keep flesh and blood in.
A ring
Twice in a moment and not once in a thousand years.
M.
Which is the cleanest letter in the alphabet?
H because it is always in the middle of washing.
A man was away for a number of years and when he came home again he looked at a picture which was hanging on the wall and said - Brothers and sisters I have none, but that fellows father was my father's son. Whom was he looking at?
Himself (?)
- Collector
- Sam Mc Nutt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carnamogagh Lower, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr H. Mc Nutt
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Carnamogagh Lower, Co. Donegal
