School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 078
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- (continued from previous page)Clock because it always has it hands on its face.)
As I went up yonder high-way I met a little thing rolling in the hay. It was neither fish, flesh blood or bone and in three weeks it wolked alone? (An egg)
It is a useful useless instrument, the man that buys it never owns it the man that owns it never knows it. What is that? (A coffin)
I went in to an orchard one day and saw an apple tree, I took no apple off it an I left no apples on it. How many apples were on the tree? (Two apples)
Fifty patches on my coal, what time is it? (Time to get a new one.)
What is always walking with its head down? A nail in your shoe)
Head like a thimble, tail like a rat, you may guess for ever but you could not guess that. (A pipe)
Through the wood and through the wood and never touches the wood. What is that? (A knife in a man's pocket)
What is it does during the day it draws it over it at night. What is that? (The fire.)
First is white but not milk, second is green but not grass, third is red but not blood and fourth is black but not ink. What is it? (A blackberry)
