School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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- (continued from previous page)fire the first. A. Light the match first.
Q. What goes up the ladder with their heads down. A. The nails in your boots.
Q. A row of white horses standing in a stall up came a white bull and licked them all.
A. Your tounge licking your teeth.
Q. A humpty backed father a hallow bellied mother and three dirty children.
A. A pot with three legs unde it.
Q. Black and white went up the hill black came down and white stood still.
A. A hen laying an egg.
Q. A leaper a ditches a cutter of corn a little brown cow with two leather horns.
A. A hare
Q. What part of the cow goes over the ditch first.
A Her breath.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Betty Molloy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyremon Commons, Co. Wicklow