School: Drumaweir (roll number 5228)
- Location:
- Drumaweer, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 32
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- (continued from previous page)What comes into the house white and goes out of the house read (red)? A newspaper.What goes into the byre before the cow? Its breath.
- The full of a house and the full of a room, if you were at it for a year you would'nt get the full of a spoon.
Smoke.Four and twenty white cows tied to a stake; in came a red one and gave them all a slake.
Your teeth and tongue.What goes up-stairs on its head?
A nail in your shoe.What goes round the house with an old sock on it?(continues on next page)
