School: Kilcorby
- Location:
- Kilcorby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ebbitt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0969, Page 249
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- (1) What sits up high, and looks down low crooked in the neck and bald in the crown? Answer- A hazel nut.
(2) What is full and holds more?
Answer- A pot of potatoes.
(3) What is it the more you dry the wetter it gets? Answer- A towel.
(4) What County in the British isles do you put in a bottle? Answer- County Cork.
(5) In a four cornered parlour and cat sitting in every corner and a cat sitting on every cats tail how many cat's is that?
Answer- Four.
(6) What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
Answer- A hole
(7) As I was going over yonder hill I saw a table and it was neither ash, nor oak, nor yew, nor any other kind of tree that ever grew?
Answer- A table of ice.
- Collector
- Frances Elliott
- Gender
- Female
