School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 169
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- No 1. What's alive in the front, dead in the middle, body and soul behind?
Ans: A man ploughing.
No. 2 What could go up the chimney down and couldn't go down the chimney up
Ans: An umbrella?
No. 3 What goes round the water and round the water and never touches the water?
Ans: An egge in a duck swimming
No.4 What grows in the wood, sounds in the town, and earns its master many a pound?
Ans: A fiddle.
No. 5 There was a man who had no eyes, He went out to view the skies. He saw a tree with apples on it. He took no apples off it, and he left no apples on it?
Ans: The man had one eye, there were two apples on the three and he took one of them.
No. 6 I have a little servant, she has but one eye, and a long tail that she lets fly and every time she goes over the gap, she leaves a bit(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Traynor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
