School: Gurteen, Durrow (roll number 7652)
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Ss. de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0830, Page 130
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- Old mother twitchead has but one eye and a long tail which she let fly every time she went over a gap she left a bit of her tail in a trap? A needle and thread.
Use me well and I am everybody scratch me and im nobody? A looking glass.
When may many a man's pocket be empty and yet something in it? When there is a hole in it.
If a poker shovel and tongs costs seven shillings what would a ton of coal come to? To ashes.
I tremble at every breath of air and yet can heaviest burdens bear? Water
Its in the marrow and not in the bone.
Its in the rock and not in the stone.
Its in the bolster and not in the bed.
Its in the brain and not in the head?
The Letter R.
What ties two people together but only touches one ? a wedding ring
What has it's heard in its head? A head of cabbage
What is the quickest way to cover the seat of a chair? To sit on it.
What animal carries most into Noah's ark? The elephant because he carries his trunk?
England is the fatherland Germany the motherland what is Greese? 1&6 per tin? I have a little cow up in the field when i pull his leg his nose begins to bleed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Siobhan Ní Fhaoláin
- Gender
- Female
