School: Askill (roll number 5294)
- Location:
- Askill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Padraig Ó Treabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0190, Page 331
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- What goes around the fields and round the fields and leaves a rag on every husk.?
SnowWhat goes up the ladder and up the ladder with its head down.?
A nail in a man's shoe.What is it that the more you lick it the faster it goes.?
A piece of candy.What hangs and bears and never blossoms.?
The crook.What's under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire.?
A cake in an oven placed on coals and more coals on the lid.I have a wee cow She's tied to the wall. She'd eat all the leather from here to Donegal.
The fire on the hearth.
So I was walking through yond field of wheat.
I picked up something good to eat.
It was neither fish, flesh nor bone.
And I left it there till it could walk it's lone.
An egg.As round as an apple as flat as a pan. On one side a woman on other side a man.
A Queen Victoria penny.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Lawrence M. Travers
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Michael Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
