School: Dún Drongáin (B.) (roll number 7231)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Diarmuid Ó Gormáin Labhrás Ó Gormáín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)shilling and an old penny? Elevenpence
What tree grows on your hand? The Palm
In a corner there is a cup; in the cup there is a sup and everyone must taste it? Death.
I have a little sister
She climbs the hills so high
And that little sister
Has a very bright eye.
A star
A fiddler in Dublin had a brother a fiddler in Cork and the fiddler in Cork had no brother a fiddler in Dublin. The fiddler in Dublin was a girl.
What is taken from you before you get it? Your photo.
What is better than god, worse than the devil and if you eat it you till die? Nothing
A houseful, a roomful
you couldn't take a spoonful. Smoke
What has two banks and is still very poor. The River
What has four feet and cant walk. A bed.(continues on next page)
