School: An Mullach (roll number 2964)
- Location:
- Mullagh More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Mac Gothraidh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0058, Page 0052
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- (continued from previous page)10. Why is a pig in the parlor like a house on fire? (Because the quicker he is put out, the better)
11. What is deeper than the see? (a tailor's thimble)
12. There are brought to the table, cut, and handed round, but are never eaten? (a dick of cards)
13. I had a littler sister her name was peep. She would go over the sea. Be it ever so down? (A star)
14. The more you cut off the longer it gets? (a grave)
15. What county would stop a bottle? (Cork)
16. What room can you never enter?(A mushroom)
17. What comes in on a person's back, and goes out as Fien as silk? (Smoke)
18. Two n's two o's and l and a d. Put them together and spell them for me? (London)
20. Its read and its green and its parable blue the king could not reach it no more than the Queen?(continues on next page)
