School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)

Location:
Collooney, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0178, Page 001

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  1. Q. What twelve coins make one shilling without pence?
    A. Eight farthings, two half-pence, one three-penny bit and one sixpenny bit.
    Q. Two women going to market with eggs. One woman said to the other "if you give me one egg, I will have as much as you." "No." said the second woman. "But if you give me one egg I will have twice as much as you." How many eggs had each of them?
    A. One had five and the other seven.
    Q. What is the difference between a priest and a cobbler?
    A. One is for mending soles and the other for saving souls.
    Q. I washed my face with water that never fell or ran, and I dried it with a towel that was never spun or woven.
    A. I washed it with the dew and dried it with the sun.
    Q. What are the three hardest things to be found?
    A. A shoe for the foot of the mountain, a towel to dry the face of the earth and a sheet for the bed of the ocean.
    Q. As I looked over my father's garden wall I saw
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pauline Mullen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glen, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    John Mullen
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    44
    Address
    Glen, Co. Sligo