School: Shannow
- Location:
- Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B. Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 238
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- (continued from previous page)Why should doctors be less liable than others to be upset on the ocean. Answer. They are most used to see sickness. Which is the best way to make the hours go quickly. Answer. By using the spur of the moment. If the father is the head of the family what is the eldest son.
Answer. The heir.Three half cakes, three whole cakes three quarters of another divided between the fiddler and his wife the piper and his mother. Answer. 1 3/4 cakes.
What part of a cow goes into the wood first. Answer her breathI have but one horn
But Im no unicorn
I milk yet Im no kerry cow
The grandmother loves me
And all the poor shoves me
With a good look up in their brow
Answer. Teapot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Redhills, Co. Cavan
