School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 048
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- (continued from previous page)Riddle me that and I'll give you my britches.
Answer: A head of cabbage.5.
Deep it is and wide around the mouth it is and ready for a man.
Answer: A grave.
6.
If you plant a hedge of bushes each a yard apart.
How many bushes will you need for a hedge 50 yards long?
Answer: fifty-one bushes."What sounds in the wood and rings in the town,
And earns for its master many a crown.
Answer. A fiddleI lived to dye and I dyed to live, And the more I dyed the better I lived"
Answer. A wool dyer.(continues on next page)
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- James Fitzsimons
- Gender
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