School: Valleymount

Location:
An Chrois, Co. Chill Mhantáin
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 147

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 147

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  2. 1. Look at a nail and flesh on it?
    The nail of your finger.
    2. Long legs, short thighs, little head , and no eyes?
    A fire tongs.
    3. Hinky hanky, under a bank, ten drawing four?
    A person milking a cow.
    4. Little Nancy edditcot, sitting in a red petticoat, the longer she stands the shorter she grows?
    A candle.
    5. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman, the half of a man?
    A penny.
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