School: Toames, Maghcromtha (roll number 15478)
- Location:
- Tooms, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0338, Page 290
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- (continued from previous page)many windows in it.?
A thimble.The man that made it never wore it
And the man that wore it never saw it?
A coffinAs I was going up to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
And every wife had seven bags
And in every bag there were seven cats
And every cat had seven kittens
How many were going to St. Ives?
Myself.Hard working father, lazy old mother
Twelve little children all the same colour?
A clockA middy noddy with a round black body and a big flat hat, what is that?
A potWhat is smaller than the eye of a needle?
The threadWhat goes round the field and round the field
And stops at every corner?
A mowing machine.As round as an apple as plump as a ball
Can climb the church over steeple and(continues on next page)
