School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0178, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)Q.Through the wood and throug the wood and all head down
A. Jacks in a person's boots.
Q. What four letters would frighten a thief?
A. D.I.C.U.
Q. When should you lose your temper?
A. When it is a bad one.
Q. What has a neck and body, but nothing else?
A. A bottle
Q.Which is it the grey goose as the white goose thet is the gander?
A. A gose could not be a gander.
Q. What is it thet we see every day, the King seldom sees it and God never saw it?
A. One's own equal.
Q. Why should a hen be never untidy?
A. Because she always carries a comb with her.
Q. What is nothing?
A.What a country man gives you for holding his horse.
Q.There was a man who lived to dye, and dyed to live. The more he dyed the better he lived, who was he?
A. A dyer.
Q. What is full of holes and yet holds water?
A. A sponge.
q. Why is lump sugar like a race horse?
A. The more you lick it the faster is goes?
Q. How many legs has a horse?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pauline Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Mullen
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 44
- Address
- Glen, Co. Sligo
