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 0033
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- The more you take from it the longer it grows?
A hole.
What comes in in squares and goes out in tufts?
Black and white and read all over?
A newspaper.
Patches upon patches without any stitches?
A head of cabbage.
Stiff standing in the bed, first white and then red, there is not a lady in the land that would not take it in her hand?
A strawberry.
What goes around the world with their heads down?
Nails in a man's shoe.
Useful, useless employment, often bought and never lent?
A coffin.
Tin tank under the bank, ten drawing four?
A woman milking a cow.
Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
A cake in an oven.
What is it that goes around the house all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lucy Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Martin Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Galway
