School: Ballymackney (roll number 5501)
- Location:
- Ballymackney, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 178
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- 1. Long legs short thighs little head and no eyes.
The tongs.
2. Why does a hen pick a pot.
Because she can't lick it.
3. What goes round the house and a harrow after it.
A hen and a flock of chickens
4. What is the most shy article in the house.
The clock, because it always has its hands on its face.
5. As I went to fair the of saint Ive's I met a man and he had seven wives, and every wife had seven sacks and in every sack there was cats and every cat had seven kittens, wives, sacks, cats and kittens how many were going to the fair of saint Ive's.
One man.
6. A hard working father, a lazy mother and twelve children and them all the same distance from other.
The clock because it always has it's hands on its face.
7. What goes round the house during the day and sits in the corner at night.
The Broom
Black and white ___ up the hill(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jane O Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Annacroff, Co. Monaghan
