School: Paite Gobha (Pettigo)
- Location:
- Pettigo, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eilís Nic Liam
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 286
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- 1 Question. This thing is in a kings palace and it would not go on your thumb?
Answer = It is a thimble.
1 Question = This thing goes round the field and never stops till it goes through the world?
Answer = A light day.3 Question = There is a little thing it has a eye but cannot see?
Answer = A needle.
4 Question = Why is your nose not twelve inches long?
Answer = Because it would be a foot.
5 Question = Twenty four little things scraping up the field?
Answer = A harrow.6 Question = As I went Curly hill, Curly hill was quaking. I met a thing. It was standing naked. It had nine tops, nine tails nineteen hundred score of nails?
Answer = Irish Thistle.
7 Question = Why is a policeman like a mill horse?
Answer = Because he goes his rounds.(continues on next page)
