School: An Druipseach
- Location:
- Dripsey, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0348, Page 202
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- 1. What grows larger the more you take from it?
Answer : a hole.
2. Stiff standing in a bed half white and half red any lady in the land need not be ashamed to take it in her hand.
Answer : A turnip.
3. Why does a cow look over a gap.
Answer : Because she could not look under it.
4. As black as ink, as white as milk and hops the road like hailstone.
Answer : A magpie.
5. Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle and hard all round.
Answer : A bed.
6. I had a little sister and they called her Peep - Peep. She waded the water so deep, deep, deep. She climbed up the hillside so high, high, high and dear little sister has a very bright eye.
Answer : A star.
- Informant
- Mrs Cremin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magooly, Co. Cork
