School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)
- Location:
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anton Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 2
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- (continued from previous page)Q. A whitewashed wall as white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk?
A. An egg.
Q. What flies high, lights low, cuts grass, and does not mow?
A. A shot from a gun.
Q. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, the half of a woman and the whole of a man?
A. A penny.
Q. What covers the whole world but the water and the sun?
A. The Mist.
Q. A long-armed father, a big-headed mother, three children just like each other?
A. A pot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick J. Gallen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Tom Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievecloghoge, Co. Donegal
