School: Drakestown, Ardee (roll number 1554)
- Location:
- Drakestown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Michael Ó Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)Three men and three score wouldn't leave hidi hadie as he was before? (A Broken Egg.)I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayor's house? (A thimble.Black and white hopping on the road like hailstones? (A willie-way-tail.)When is a door not a door? (When it is ajar.)A jumper of a ditch, a clipper of thorns, a little brown cow with a pair of leather horns. (A rabbit.)Forty sheep went out a gap, forty more after that, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 3 how much is that? (Five.)When is a schoolboy like a postage stamp? (When he is licked and put in a corner to make him stick to his letters.)
