School: Baile an Stancaird (roll number 14063)
- Location:
- Ballynastangford Lower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás S. Stundún
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- What goes up a ladder with its head down?
The nails in a man's shoe.
It opens like a barn door and shuts like a trap many a thing you would think of before you would think of that?
An umbrella.
All patches and no stitches?
A head of cabbage.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Derry would not pull it up?
A well.
What is always behind time?
The back of a clock.
A small little man with a red little nose the longer you pull him the shorter he goes?
A cigarette.
Wooly in and wooly out and wooly in in wooly's mouth?
A woollen(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Jennings
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteenmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Griffin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteenmore, Co. Mayo
