School: An Clochar, Carraig Thuathail
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Celestine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0385, Page 265
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- Q. As I was going up a slippery gap, I met my auntie Mary she had iron nose and timber toes, and upon my word she would frighten the crows.
A. A gun.
Q. I have a little sister, we call her peep-peep, she waves the water deep-deep-deep. She climbs the mountains high, high, high, and the poor little creature she has but one eye.
a. A star.
Q. Did you ever see half a pig's head with two eyes?
A. I saw it with my own two eyes.
Q. What is a half-moon like?
A. The other half.
Q. Its red and its yellow, a sparkle of green, the king cannot touch it no more than the queen.
A. A rainbow.
Q. There was a little house and a mouse could not live in it and all the men in town could not count the windows in it.
A. A thimble.
Q. Which part of a cow comes out the gap first?
A. Her breath.
Q. There were twenty crows on a tree, if a shot was fired at them and four were killed, how many were left?
A. None, because all of them would have flown away.
Q. Which goes the faster, heat or cold?
A. Cold, because it is easily caught.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Canty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodstock, Co. Cork
