School: Más an Easa (C.) (roll number 14776)
- Location:
- Masiness, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cholchuin
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- (continued from previous page)Four legs up and four legs down, soft in the middle and hard all round?
Ans. A bed.
Why does a hen cross the road?
Ans. To get to the other side.
What makes a man look into a pipe?
Ans. Because he can not go in and look out.
What is all holes and can not see through it?
Ans. A turf stack.
What would one fill a barrel with to make it empty?
Ans. Holes.
I have a wee house and it would not hold a mouse and there is as many windows on it, as a gentle - man's house?
Ans. A thimble.
Bridget Gallagher.
Ards.
- Old Superstition.
If one has a horse - shoe inside the door that is bringing good luck.
If one puts up an umbrella in the house, that is seven years bad luck.
If one lets the looking - glass fall, that is seven years bad luck.
If one lets any article fall, that is(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bridget Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ards, Co. Donegal
