School: Coolboyoge
- Location:
- Coolboyoge, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Roddy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0974, Page 150
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- (continued from previous page)a dog, and a three legged-stool
Q: Formed long ago yet made to-day. Employed while others sleep, that few would like to give away or a wish to keep? Ans: - A Bed.
Q: Little Nancy Etticote in a white petticoat with a red nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows? A:- A Candle.
Q: Black within and red without four corners round about? Ans:- A Chimney
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives, every wife had seven sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat had seven kittens, Ki(??) cats, sacks, and wives how many were going to St. Ives? Ans:- One and the rest were returning.
It isn't a river, it isn't a ford, it isn't a thread upon my word, it insn't a stick it isn't a stone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Halliday
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Daggan, Co. Cavan
