School: Roxboro, Luimneach (roll number 15680)
- Location:
- Roxborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Gheallagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0525, Page 055
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- Why is it dangerous to sleep on a train? Because trains run over sleepers.
When is it dangerous to go out in the country? When the hedges are shooting, the bull rushes out and the cowslips about.
What three letters does a burglar fear most? ICU.
What is it you couldn’t find? Hair in a baldy man’s head.
Tis Black tis white and tis read all over? A Newspaper.
The King of Morocco had a ship
An in that ship his daughter sits
An I will be blamed for telling her name
An that’s three times I have told it?
Ann
Tis as black as the night
But your home it makes bright
When it bursts into flame
Who will tell me it’s my name? Coal
What three things cannot be got? A shoe for the foot of a mountain. A towel to wipe the face of the earth, and a sheet to cover the bed of the ocean.
- Collector
- Gerard Greensmyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roxborough, Co. Limerick
