School: Muine Mór
- Location:
- Meenymore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Liam Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)pair of breeches?
Ans. A head of cabbage.
Q. If a goose went up on the house where would you get her downe?
Ans. In her feathers.
Q. As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other a man?
Ans. A penny.
Q. The break up of a nation; the whole of a ring; twenty hundred weight; what name will it bring?
Ans. Warrington. Note. War-ring-ton.
Q. What place in london reminds us of a noisy dog?
Ans. Barking.
Q. Useful, useless instrument often bought and never lent. They who buy it do no need it and they who need it do not buy it?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mac Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnalibbert, Co. Leitrim
