School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 505
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- (continued from previous page)30) What goes through the wood and through the wood and never touches the woo.
Ans.: A knife in a man´s pocket.31) What is full and can hold more.
Ans.: A pot of potatoes without water.32) What is too short, cut off a bit and you make it too long.
Ans.: a Grave.33) I have a little sister called peep-it-ee-peep,
She'd go over the sea if it was ever so deep.
Ans.: a Star.34) I have a little red cow in the byre
And the devil himself would not tie her.
Ans.: A Flea.35) There is a little black cow in the byre,
Give her grass, give her hay, give her water, and she will die.
Ans.: a Coal.36) As I went up on yonder hill, I met my Uncle Owen,
He had an iron rose and wooden toes and from my word he'd frighten the crows.
Ans.: a Gun.37) What part of a cart goes into the wood first.
Ans.: its rattle.38) What is it the miser spends, the spender saves
And all men carry to their graves.
Ans.: Nothing.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
