School: Finiskill (roll number 13075)
- Location:
- Finiskil, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 341
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- (continued from previous page)Answer: Teeth in your gums.Its a useful and useless instrument
From the time its brought its never lent
The man who buys it doesn't own it
When its owner gets it he doesn't know it.
Answer: A coffin.What makes more noise than a pig at a gate.
Two pigs.A jumper of ditches, a clipper of thorns
A pretty brown cow with a pair of leather horns.
Answer: A hare.Londonderry, Cork and Kerry
Spell them for me without a k.
Answer: t-h-e-mHaddy haddy with the big body
And a round flat hat. What, that?
A pot.As round as an apple, as flat as a pan
On one side a woman, on the other a man.
Answer: Queen Victoria penny(continues on next page)
