School: Cill Daighnéain
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bhuachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 357
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- (continued from previous page)If a fellow met a fellow in a field of veins if a fellow asked a fellow what he means, how many in that? = That.
Under gravel I do traval, over water I do stand. I rode a mare that never foaled and held a bridle in my hand. = A bridge.
What walks with it's head downwards. = a nail in a boot.
Why is a plumcake like the sea. = Becuase they both contain currents.
Betty inside the ditch and betty outside the ditch and if touch betty she will bite you. = nettle.
A little red Betty with a little red nose, the longer she lives the shorter she grows. = A candle.
I have a little house a mouse could not live in it. all the men in the town could not count how many windows in it. = A thimble
What part of a goes over the ditch first. = Her breath.
What grows downwards. = A cow's tail.
- Collector
- Biddy Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullenataura, Co. Cork
