School: Mohill (B.) (roll number 12415)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Francis Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 006
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- (continued from previous page)Ans. A man had but one eye, and there were but two apples on the tree.
I sat on my hunkers and looked through my winkers, and saw the dead burying the live>
Ans. Putting ashes on the fire.As I went out on yonder gap I met my Uncle Davy. I cut his throat and drank his blood, and left him lying easy?
Ans A Blackberry.Why is Leitrim so much like a springing cow.
Ans.Because it is near Cavan.Half of a moon, whole of a hill, and there is not a town in Ireland is standing yet as still.
Ans. Mohill.How many sticks go to a crow's nest?
Ans. None, the crow always brings them.What has to be killed before it can be cured.
Ans. A pig. Over the hills there lived a maid, As fair as the sun in the morn She was made a wife the first hour of her life, And she died before she was born.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leo Kenny
- Gender
- Male
