School: Kilcorby
- Location:
- Kilcorby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ebbitt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0969, Page 245
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- (1) Round like an apple and deep like a cup and all the men in Europe would not lift it up?
Answer - A Spring-well.
(2) What goes through the wood and through and never touches it?
A knife in a man's pocket.
(3) Why is the letter D like a squalling child
Because it makes ma mad.
(4) As round as an "O" and flat as a pan one a woman and the other side a man?
A Penny.
(5) As I went through yonder field I met my Auntie Jane, steel toes, iron nose, and upon my word she scared the crows? A gun.
(6) A I have a knife of ivory, it would kill lion, it could kill a bear, and it would kill all the bird's that ever flew in the air? Hunger.
- Collector
- Muriel Pearson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcorby, Co. Cavan
