School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0032
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“A man without eyes saw apples on a tree.”
(continued from previous page)It grows in the wood. It sounds in the town. It earns its master many a crown? A fiddle.
What is it that is black and white and read all over? A paper.
North, south, east and west. Three hundred teeth and no mouth? A fir.
She sits on the wall. She drinks all she get and eats nothing at all? A lamp.
If a cow and calf cost twenty pounds, what would a ton of coal come to? Ashes.
It's in the rock and not in the stone. It's in the marrow and not in the bone. It's in the Church yard and not in the steeple. It's in the priest and not in the people? The letter R.
A houseful and a bowlful. You could not get [a] spoonful? Smoke.
What is it that is brought to the table often cut but never eaten? A deck of cards.
Why is a flea like a train? Because he travels on the sleepers.
What is it that is made too short and to cut off a piece makes it long enough? A grave.
Twenty sheep went out a gap. Twenty more went after them. A dog and a shepherd went after them. How many feet went out the gap? Two.
- Collector
- Nellie Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Coleman
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Ballyargadaun, Co. Galway