School: Keeny
- Location:
- Keeny, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 472
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- (continued from previous page)A potato.
Never lent. never borrowed and them that gets it can't refuse
The Cold.
It grows in the wood and sound in town and earns its master many a pound.
A fiddle.
Use me well and I'm everyone. Scratch my back and I'm nobody.
A looking glass.
I ran until I got it. I sat down to look it and I brought it home with me.
A thorn in my foot.
As I looked up on yon garden wall I saw a man who let a squall. His beard was flesh, his mouth was horn and such a man was never born.
A cock crowing.
What says "gink gink". and never takes a drink?
A chain of a boat.
I had seven pence in my pocket. I lost four pence. What(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryhoo, Co. Cavan
