School: Baile Uí Mhuinghile (roll number 8284)
- Location:
- Baile Uí Mhaonaíle, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Liam Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0133, Page 660
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“I went up the roading I came down the roading and I carried the roading on my back.”
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“Why is a penknife like the spring of the year.”
I. Why is a penknife like the spring of the year.
Because the spring brings up the blades.
II. It grows in the wood and it sounds in the town and it earns for it's master many a crown.
A Fiddle.
III. Where was the first nail hit on. - on its head.
IV Twenty-four white horses standing in the stall
Up comes the red one and licks them all.(continues on next page)