School: Leitir
- Location:
- Templecrone, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Proinsias Ó hEachaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1062, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)head down? - A nail in one's boot.
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all :- The Sun.
What is full and holds more? :- A pot of potatoes.
What goes round the house and round the house and lays an egg in every corner. :- The hailstones.
What goes round the house and leaves three tracks behind it, :- A man with a barrow
What has eyes and cannot see :-potatoes.
Where was Moses when the light went out :- In the dark.
How many teeth had Adam :- God knows.
How many cords of twine would reach the sky :- One if it was long enough.
Lame man legless, came to the door stepless. Keep in the hens I am not afraid of the dog. Why does a cow look over a hill :- Because she cannot see through it.
What does the rain dry and sun will wet :- butter
