School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)
- Location:
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Teacher: L. Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0838, Page 201
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- (continued from previous page)A. a pipe.
Q. What is full and holds more.
A. A pot of potatoes.
Q. What key is the best for unlocking the tongue
A. Whiskey.
Q. What is black and white and re(a)d all over.
A. A paper.
Q. Fire under fire over and still it never touches the fire.
A. A cake in a bake pot.
Q. As I went up the hill I met my uncle Bill. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body easy.?
A. A Bottle of whiskey.
Q. Black as ink and as white as snow and hops on the road like hail stones.
A. A magpie
Q. Little red Nancy with her little red nose the longer she stands the shorter(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gertie Atkinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monavea, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mary Wade
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardateggle, Co. Laois
