School: Naomh Muire, Ballyhean (roll number 13444)
- Location:
- Ballyhean, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Ó Duibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090, Page 027
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- (continued from previous page)Black as ink and ink it tis not, is white is milk and milk it is not.
Hops on the road like a marble stone and a marble stone it is not. (A magpie)
When is a cow the roundest?
(When she is licking her tail)
When an ass has three quar-ters of a turnip eaten what time is it. (A quarter to ate.)
Why is a flea like a train.
(Because he runs on sleepers.)
Hair all over rough in the skin like two things wagging and one going in. (A pig eating out of a trough)
What is the hardest work a man can do. (Eating.)
- Collector
- Louis Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrew, Co. Mayo
