School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gortaleam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0037, Page 0355
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- (continued from previous page)Q What would make a pair of shoes
A Two shoesQ I have a little servant and she has only one eye
A A needle
- Q. What blew the first whistle
A. The wind
Q. Twenty-four white horses tied to a stall one comes out and licks them all.
A. Your tongue and your teeth
Q. What has four legs and one foot
A. A bed
Q. As I went out a gap I met my Uncle (day?) Dan with timber (nose?) toes and iron nose and upon my word she would frighten them crows
A. a gun
Q. What bird is like a hen stealing.
A. A robin, because the hen is robbing
Q. What sort of robbery is not dangerous.
A. A (saft) safe robbery.
Q. What has holes and yet holds water.
A. a sponge(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kathleen Mannion
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Mannion
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
