School: Gort Sceithe (roll number 13062)
- Location:
- Gortskehy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 185
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- (continued from previous page)2. What makes a pair of shoes?
(Two)
3. How many bills does a hen lay on the ground before she has enough?
(One)
4. How many cuts of a knife does a well-pointed scallop want?
(None)
5. Which of the grey goose or the white goose is the gander?
(None of them).
6. It is in in the day and out in the night.
(The latch of the door).
7. It is in and it is out and there are panes in it.
(A window)
8. What goes round the house all day and sits in the corner at night?
(the twig)
9. Long legs, crooked thighs, a small head and no eyes.
(A tongs)
10. How many cows' tails would go up to the moon?
(One if it were long enough)
11. As I went out a gap, I met my uncle Davy. I cut off his head and left his body easy.
(A head of cabbage).
12. As I went up the London Bridge, I met a London scholar. And he took off his coat, and he took off his hat, and tell me the name of the London scholar?
(Andy)
13. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup. And all the king's houses wouldn't pull it up.
(the sun)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Cléirigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Annefield, Co. Mayo
