School: Beith Mhór (Beaghmore) (roll number 1209)
- Location:
- Beagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 350
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- (continued from previous page)Q- Black and white and read all over?
A- The newspaper
Q- What can eat turf and coal, and can't drink water?
A- A fire
Collected from Lizzie Murphy (continued)
Q- What is the smallest bridge in the world?
A- The bridge of your nose.
Q- What walks with its head down?
A- A nail in your boot.
Q- Long legs, short tighs, little head and no eyes?
A- The Tongs.
Q- What goes round the world, and round the world and leaves a rag in every bush?
A- The mist.
Q- Headed like a timble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you could not guess that.
A- A pipe.
Q- What goes round the house, and round the house, and leaves a loaf in every window?
A- The snow.
Q- Hitty Hatty on the wall, Hitty Hatty got a fall, All the men in Derry could not (pup) put Hitty Hatty together again?
A- An egg.
- Collector
- Thomas Masterson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornaferst, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Terence Masterson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Cornaferst, Co. Leitrim
