School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 236
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- 1). Four little bottles went up a hill, their jowls turned down and could not spill? A cow's paps.
2) A hard working father, a wee lazy mother and 12 little children all alike? A clock.
3) What goes up, when rain comes down? An umbrella.
4). Humty - dumty sat on a wall, Humty dumty got a great fall, all the King's horses and all the King's men coud not put Humty Dumty together again? An egg.
5.) What is half the moon like? The other half.
6.) Black I am, red I be, many the man that injured me, broke my head, split my face, and took me out of my native place? coal.
7.) What goes up the chimney down, and can not go down the chimney up? An umbrella.
8.) It is in, it is out, it is like a trout, it is slippery wet and grazy? your tongue.
9.) If a 2,000 ton ship sailed(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Power
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Farranfore, Co. Kerry
