School: Ceapach na bhFaoiteach (C.) Toem (roll number 14792)
- Location:
- Cappagh White, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0542, Page 160
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- 1. What is the oldest tree in the world?
The elder.
2. What stick never grows?
A candle stick.
3. What goes up when the rain comes down?
An umbrella.
4. What talks but never moves?
A gramophone.
5. As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on the road like hailstones?
A magpie.
6. What turns but never moves?
Sour-milk.
7. Black and is white and read all over?
A paper.
8. What goes to Cork without moving?
The railway.
9. A fire under and a fire over and never touched the fire?
A cake in the oven.
10. What is it that is full of holes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Greenfield, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Greenfield, Co. Tipperary
