School: Ráth na mBeach (roll number 17129)
- Location:
- Rathnamagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: R. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 371
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- Why is a black hen better than a white hen. Because a black hen can lay a white egg and the white hen cannot lay a black egg.
A steel top an iron nose and God knows it would frighten the crows.
A gun.
I had a donkey and he was the far side of the river and there was a sheaf of oats the other side of the river. The river was too wide for him to jump and it was too deep for him to swim. He couldn't go round it and what did the ass do. Will you give it up.
That is what the ass did.
How would you get down off a horse.
There is no down on him.
What goes to the table, is out and never eaten.
A deck of cards.
I have a little tub and it is filled with meat every day but Sunday.
A thimble.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you would not guess that.
A pipe.
Long and lanky deaf and dumb has no feet and yet can run.
A river.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Culain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaskeehaun, Co. Mayo
