School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)2. If there was a goose, a sheaf of oats, and a fox on one side of a river, and a man wanted to get them to the other side in a boat how would he get them across?
Bring over the goose first, and sheaf of oats. Then bring back the goose again, and bring over the fox Go back for the goose.
3. Up the chimney down, but it cannot come down the chimney up?
An Umbrella.
4. "Ink-Ank" under the bank, ten drawing four?
A man milking a cow.
5. Itty Attie on the wall. Itty Attie got a fall. All the men in London Derry would not make Itty Attie as it was before?
An egg.
5. Forty sheep went out a gap. Forty more followed them. A shepherd and his dog. How many feet went out the gap?
Two feet.
7. What is impossible?
Trying to make a woman say "yes" when she is inclined to say "no".
8. What is nonsense?
Drinking soup with a fork.
- Collector
- Bridie Mc Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonadarragh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Mc Neill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonadarragh, Co. Galway
