School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)
- Location:
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1107, Page 84
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- What goes round the wood and round the wood, but never goes into the wood?
The bark of a tree.There was a man, he made a thing.
He made it rather short,
He took a piece off every end
He made it long enough.
A grave.What has an eye, but cannot see?
A needleWhat has teeth, but cannot eat?
A comb. What is the shyest thing in the house?
A clock, because it keeps its hands on its face all day. A hard working father, a lazy old mother,
Twelve little children all the same colour?
A clock.Which is the fastest, heat or cold?
Heat, because you can catch a cold.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Geraldine Anderson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castruse, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Anderson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
