School: Sidhean (roll number 6501)
- Location:
- Shane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Mac Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 002
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- Big fat woman long legged father, four wee children all the same height? A pot.
As I went across Tara hill Tara hill was shaken, four and twenty madmen tearing up the nation? A harrow.
What grows in the wood and sounds in the (wood) town? A fiddle.
What turns without moving? milk.
I sat down on my hunkers and looked through my winkers I saw the dead burying the live?
Ashes.
Two feet under and three on the top head of the living against the mouth of the dead?
A man carrying a pot on his head.
What works all day and sleeps at night with its finger in its eye? A crook.
What is the difference between a hungry man and a glutton? On longs to eat and the other eats too long.
As I went through yon [guttery?] gap I met my uncle David. I took off his hat and drank his blood and left his body easy?
A bottle of whiskey.
What is the difference between an ass and a stamp? One goes on with a lick of the lip and the other goes on with a lick.(continues on next page)
