School: Druim Muc (roll number 12861)
- Location:
- Corderrybane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Chuinneagáin
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- (continued from previous page)A gun.
Forty sheep went through a gap, forty more followed that, eleven, ten, six, seven, three and two how many's that?
Five
As I was going down the road I met a man with a drove of sheep I asked him how many sheep he had, and he said, If I had as many more, and twice as many more, and half as many more, and you into the count I should have a hundred. How many had he?
Twenty two
Three half cakes, three whole cakes, three quarters of another, divide that on the fiddler his wife, the piper and his mother?
A cake and three quarters a peice.
How would you compare the letter f to a bullock's tale?
Both are at the end of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Carraghar
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corderryduff, Co. Monaghan
