School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 169
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- 1.
A thing goes far for its living and seldom comes home
It has legs in its body and walks on none.
(A Ship)
2.
What went to America and stopped there; came home because it would not go there.?
(A Clock)
3.
What opens like a barn door, and shuts like a trap.?
(A Purse)
4.
The man that made it never wore it,
and the man that wore it never saw it.
(A Coffin)
5.
What goes off but yet stops in the same place?
(A Gun)
6. What wears shoes, and has none?
(A Football)
7.
What goes into the water white, and comes out black?
(A Baker's Shoe)
8. What goes up when the rain comes down?
(An Umbrella)
9.
Under and over the fire, and never touches the fire (A Cake In A Bastible.)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- John O' Brien
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
