School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 329
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- (continued from previous page)Ans. A brush.
The great King Edward built a ship an(d) in that ship he placed his daughter an(d) I will be blamed for telling her name an(d) that is three times I have told her name?
Ans. Ann.
Humpty, dumpty sat on the wall,
humpty dumpty got a great fall
all the King's horses and all the King's men would not pout humpty dumpty together again?
Ans. An egg.
You see it come in on the soldiers of men, like the thread of the silk it will leave us again?
Ans. Turf.
There is a garden that I ken.
Full of little gentlemen.
Little caps of blue they wear.
And green ribbons very fair.
Ans. Flax(continues on next page)
