School: Clomanto
- Location:
- Clomantagh Upper, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Liam Mac Óda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 362
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- 1. What has an eye but no hand?
2. What has a head but no eye?
3. Why does a hen pick a pot?
4. Why does a cow look over the ditch?
5. There is a little red heifer lying by the wall
she eats all her fodder and drinks none at all?
6. Little thing little thing smaller than a mouse
It has more windows than a big king's house?
7. An ass in bad grass and a ass in good grass and the ass in the bad grass wanted to get over (it) to the ass in the good grass? What did he do? (?)
8. There was a fox and a goose and a shave of oats he wanted to take them over separate. How did he do it?
9. Its deep and its damp and its fit for any lady in the land?
10. As I went over London Bridge I found a piece of timber it made nine churches nine chaples a bady cradle and there was a lot left?
11. As round as an apple and deep as a pail. It never cries out till its caught be the tail?
12. Four feet hanging, four feet ganging, four feet lying in a press?(continues on next page)
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