School: Cooley
- Location:
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 361
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14. Old mother twitchet has but one eye and a long tail in which she lets fly and everytime she goes through a gap she leaves a piece of her tail in the trap.
A woman sewing.
15. There was a man went through this town Green Grazel was his name, his saddle bow was guilt with gold three times I am blamed for telling his name.
Was.
16. As round as an apple as plump as a ball as high as Derry market house steeple and all?
The sun.
17. There was a man and he had eyes and he went out to view the skies, he saw a tree with apples on it, he took no apples off it and he left no apples on it.
There were only two apples on the tree and he took one apple off it and left one on it.
18. What is the difference between a hundred and a thousand?
Nought.
19. What is the biggest nation.
Imagination.
20. What are the biggest ants(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John G. Barr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glencrow, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs William Barr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glencrow, Co. Donegal
