School: Emly (C.) (roll number 16060)
- Location:
- Emly, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Brighid de Roiste
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0580, Page 135
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- (continued from previous page)White bird featherless flew from Paradise and perched on a leafless tree. Snow.
A man without eyes saw plums on a tree.
He neither took plums nor left plums
And how could that be?
He had only one eye.
What gets boots but never wears them?
It is black it is white it is read all over?
A newspaper.
I have a little house and a mouse could not fit in it and all the men in town could not count how many windows in it? A thimble.
Ink, ank under a bank ten drawing four? A woman milking a cow.
What goes up when the rain comes down? An umbrella.
Four legs up and four legs down soft in the middle and hard all round. A bed.
Two lovely maidens in white got(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frances P. Roche
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Emly, Co. Tipperary
