School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)
- Location:
- Tír Dhá Ghlas, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 052
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- (1) What becomes bigger the more you take from it? A hole.
(2) What goes in dry and comes out wet? Tea.
(3) Where did the first tree grow? On the ground.
(4) What has teeth but cannot eat? A comb.
(5) I am a little man with a red coat, and a red hat, and I am more afraid of a cock or hen, than all King George's men? A worm.
(6) When is a piece of wood like a king? When it is made into a ruler[?]
(7) As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb over the church over steeple and all? The sun.
(8) What has a tongue but cannot speak? A shoe.
(9) Why is your nose in the middle of your face? Because its the scenter.
(10) What falls but never breaks?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Burchell
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Burchell
- Gender
- Female
