School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)

Location:
Garbally, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Mícheál Mac Giollabháin
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  1. What stirs without moving?
    Milk in a basin.
    Its damp and its deep, and its dark and its fit for a lawer or a lady?
    A grave.
    Its once in a minute, twice in a moment, and its never in a thousand?
    The letter "M"
    Why may a beggar wear a very short coat?
    Because it may be long enough before he gets another.
    What keeps the sun up in the sky?
    Its beams.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Joe Mannion
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    96
    Address
    Brierfield, Co. Galway
  2. What word can you spell backwards and forwards and it is always the same?
    Navan.
    It went to America, and it stopped there, it came home because it never went there?
    A watch.
    If May West fell from the highest steple in New York, what time would it be?
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.