School: Tóin an tSeanbhaile
- Location:
- Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0086, Page 280
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would like to have it in their hands.
A. A rose.
Q. The cutter of ditches, the cutlet of corn,my old brown cow has a pair of crooked horns.
A. A scythe.
Q. What is the shiest thing in the house?
A. A clock because its hands are always hiding it's face.
Q. It's red and its white and it is green, and the King could not touch it no more than a Queen.
A. A rainbow.
Q. I have a horse with a wooden throat, the faster he gallops he swallows the rope.
A. A spinning wheel.
Q. I washed my face with the water that was never rained and I dried it with the towl that was never woven or spun.
A. The dew and the sun.
Q. It opens like a barn door, it has two eyes like a cat, and if you were guessing until tomorrow you would not guess that.
A. A scissors.
Q. What walks with its head down.
A. A nail in your shoe.
Q. What turns but never moves.
A. Milk.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Miss Bridgie Cafferkey
- Gender
- Female
