School: Baile na Cille (roll number 1320)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Éinrí Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0031
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- The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it?
Ans. A Coffin.
As black as ink, as white as snow, and it hops on the road like hail-stone?
Ans. A magpie.
I went up the road and I went down the road and I took the road on my back?
Ans. A Ladder.
Little thing, little thing, smaller than a mouse, it has more windows than the king's house?
Ans. A Thimble.
Little white cow, little white cow tied to the wall, drinks all it gets but eats nothing at all.
Ans. A Lamp.
What is deeper than the see?
Ans. A Tailor's Thimble.
Little Johny Duddle sitting in the puddle with his pair of yellow feet and his green cap on?
Ans. A Drake.
A flock of sheep went out a gap, what part of them went out first?
Ans. Their breath.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Donohue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Donohue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Galway
