School: Urbal (roll number 13874)
- Location:
- Urbal, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gerald Kelliher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 577
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- (continued from previous page)he said " I heard strange cries therein. Some people wanted that milk".Old people say that if milk is spilled while you are milking a cow, someone else wants it.
- 1. Head like a thimble, tail like a rat, you may guess forever but you'll never guess that
Ans: a pipe2. What has teeth and cannot eat?
Ans: A comb3. What has a bed in which it never lies?
Ans: A river4. What part of the cow goes out in the gap first?
Ans: Her breath5. As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on the road like hail stones.
Ans: A magpie6. For what did the king buy two half-penny candles?
Ans: For a penny7. A useful useless instrument often(continues on next page) - Collector
- Brigid Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynahona, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Derrynahona, Co. Leitrim
