School: Alt Achadh Doire (roll number 15474)
- Location:
- Altaghaderry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig L. Mac Diarmada
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- A poker and shovel cost 2/6 what would a ton of coal come to?
Ashes. Round as a thimble and tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you will never guess that?
A pipe.Opens like a barn door, shuts like a trap. You may guess forty things but you will never gues that?
Your moth. I have a wee house as big as a mouse,
It has more windows than the king's house?
A thimble. What would you do to save your soul?
Walk on your heels. Why are stockings like mice?
Because they run very quickly into holes. As I went up the long lane I met my aunty Jane.
With iron nose and timber toes upon my word she could scare the crows?
A gun.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garshooey, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Maggie Murray
- Gender
- Female