School: Leath-árdán
- Location:
- Lahardaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 75
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- 1. What is that which you have and I have not but I mak (sic) more use of than you. - Your name.
2. Long and lanky deaf and dumb, has no feet yet can run. - A river.
3. Lazy old father hard workking (sic) mother, and twelve little children as black as each other. - A clock.
4. I went up a hill. I met a car. There were two black men in it and a white man. If the two blacks ate the white. Tell me the no of the car. -281.
5. Why does a hen pick the pot. - Because she cant lick it.
6. Why does a cow look over the ditch. - Because she cant look under it.
7. A little white and round house. It is full of meat, it has no doors or windows to let me into eat. - An egg.
8. Tell me the smallest room in the world. - A Mushroom.
9. I have a little red cow, she eats all I give her, but she drinks none. - A fire.
10. What side of the cup is the handle on. - Outside.
11. What turns without moving. - milk.
12. Little Miss Switcher she has but one eye. Her long lashing tail she always lets fly. Every time she goes in and out she leaves a bit of her tail in the trap. - A needle and thread.
Written by:- Nora Mayock, Cum, Lahardane, Ballina, Co.Mayo.
- Collector
- Nora Moyock
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cum, Co. Mayo
