School: Taobh na Cruaiche (roll number 4494)
- Location:
- Teevenacroaghy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: N. Ní Mhóráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 284
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- (continued from previous page)11: Its red and its blue and its green, the king cannot reach it any more than the queen, I sent for another man back to the west and he could not reach it any more than the rest. The rainbow.
12: Why is the sun like a hardworking carpenter. Because he is putting in beams all day.
13: If Tom's father is Dick's son, what relation is Dick to Tom. Grandfather.
14: It went to America and stopped there, it came back again because it never went there. A Watch.
15:Go up the road and down the road and carry the road on your back. A ladder.
16: Its nice and its easy and it sits by the way, it eats all it gets but it drinks none at all. A fire.
17: Hit an egg against the wall, it will neither break or fall. The wall will not break or fall.
18: I have but one cow and she has but one teat, their better to me than a cow having six. One drop of her milk it would make the house ring and would cause an old hag in the corner to sing. A teapot
19: Why is a watch like a rive. It never goes long without winding.
20: Black and white and read all over. A Newspaper.
21: One day a man went into a shop to buy a pair of shoes. The shoes cost him sixteen shillings. The man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Marie Mc Greal
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fahburren, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Mc Greal
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Fahburren, Co. Mayo
