School: St Columba's, Cloonagh, Granard (roll number 12813)
- Location:
- Cloonagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peter O'Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 321
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- (continued from previous page)Ink, ank, under bank, ten drawing four?
A woman milking a cow.What would go up the chimney down and would not come down the chimey up?
An UmbrellaA humpy backed father, a hollow backed mother, three lttle dirty children all the same colour?
A pt, the hooks and three feet.A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a little brown cow with a pair of leather horns?
A hare.Black and white and red all over?
The Newspaper.What has a head, a foot and four legs?
A bedBlack and white went up the hill black came back and white stood still?
A black hen, that layed a white egg.(continues on next page)
