School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0049
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- (continued from previous page)had no brother a fiddler in Dublin and what had he?
A sister.
Why do you have to go to bed?
Because the bed does not come to you.
Four legs one foot and a head.
A bed.
Two ducks before a duck and two ducks behind a duck a duck behind a duck and a duck in the middle how many ducks in it altogether?
Three.
The priest and his sister, the doctor and his wife, went to pull nuts on a tree. There were only three nuts on the tree and they all got one each and how could that be?
The priest's sister was married to the doctor.
As I was going to the fair of St. Ives I met seven men with seven wives, each of the men had seven sacks. In each of the sacks there were seven cats. Each of the cats had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, men and wives how many were going to the fair of St. Ives.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Maria Rabbitte
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Margaret Rabbitte
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Kylebrack West, Co. Galway
