School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Ciardha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 022
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- 1.
There are four brothers long and tall, one is ready for them all. When one goes in the other goes out, and they they all go round about.
Answer.- Four knitting needles knitting a stocking.
2.
Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear. I am sure we are often oppressed. We are full in the day as we hear people say and empty at night, when we are all at rest.
Ans.- A pair of Boots.
3.
What is rounder than a ring? What is higher than a tree? What is worse than human kind? What is deeper than the sea?
Ans.- The world is rounder than a ring. Heaven is higher than a tree. The devil is worse than human kind and Hell is Deeper than the Sea.
4. As I was going up hill, I met a car with two white men and a black man in it. The two white men eat the black man What was the number of the car.
Ans.- Two-eight-one.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs K. Collins
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
