School: Ros Mór, Béal Átha Fhinghín (roll number 10378)
- Location:
- Rossmore, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Michéal Ó Corcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0307, Page 022
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- (continued from previous page)ten men couldn't break it, and a little boy could take it up and run away with it. - A rope
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Little miss Kitty, she lives by the ditch and if you went near her she'd give you the itch. - A nettle.
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Little Joany with the long nose the longer she lives the shorter she grows.- A candle.
11.
Sixty sheep upon a gap, sixty more went after that, six and seven twice eleven two and three how much is that. - Five.
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As black as ink, as white as milk, and it hopping on the ground like hail stone. - A makpie.
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Why did the cow look over the ditch. - because she couldn't look under it.
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Stands on one leg, and has its heart in its head. - A head of cabbage.
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Black and white and red all over. - A newspaper.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tessie O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossmore, Co. Cork
