School: Graigue, Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4124)
- Location:
- Graigue, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Lionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 092
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- What goes from here to Dublin without moving? The road.
What is it that a woman looks for and never wishes to find? A hole in a stocking
As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, the half of a woman, the whole of a man? A penny.
Ink, ank, under a bank, ten drawing four. - A woman milking a cow.
Why is a proud lady like a drunkard? Because they are both fond of the glass
A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat, you may guess for ever, but you could not guess that? A pipe.
Long legged father, big bellied mother three little children all the one colour. - A pot and hangers.
What is it that God never sees, a king seldom sees and no matter where a man will go he will see it? His own equal.
What goes round the world and you cannot see it? The wind.
- Collector
- William Fitzgibbon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyvisteen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Michael Fitzgibbon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Ballyvisteen, Co. Cork
