School: Dumha-chaisil
- Location:
- Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 316
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- (continued from previous page)he swallows the rope?
A spinning wheel.
Hink hank, under the bank
ten drawing four?
A person milking a sow.
As round as an apple
As deep as a cup,
All the men in Derry
Would not lift it up?
A well.
A blind man saw apples on a tree,
He took no apples and he left no apples,
How can that be?
He took one apple and left one apple.
What ship brings most people to England?
Hardship.
What can you take in your left
hand but not in your right?
Your right elbow.(continues on next page)
