School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)
- Location:
- Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Patrick Timbin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 126
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- What kind of tables doe we cook and eat?
Vegetables.
What is it that is full of holes yet holds water?
A sponge.
What has no legs but can run very fast?
A water tap.
If you fell off a monument what would you fall against? - Your will.
What tongue may hurt and grieve you without speaking a word? The tongue of your boot.
What enlightens the world though it is black?
Ink.
If a fellow met a fellow in a field of beans; said a fellow to a fellow what a fellow, what a fellow means, How many f's in that? No f in that.
A lepper on ditches clipper on thorns, tight little fellow with two leather horns? A fox.
I have a little horse; he is tied to the wall, and he would eat all the heather from Hearto Donegal, and if you gave him water he would not do atall?
A fire.
Where was Moses when he was smoking his pipe?
Behind it.
Where was Moses when the light went out?
In darkness.
What fruit is on every penny? A date.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Langan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Langan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosserk, Co. Mayo
