School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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- (continued from previous page)work with but one head and no eyes.
A. A tongs.
Q. Round the wood and round the wood and never touches the wood.
A. A knife in a man's pocket.
Q. It leaves rags on the bushes.
A. Snow.
Q. No matter how full it many come up, it always goes down empty.
A. A bucket.
Q. Dick's father is Tom's son what relation is Tom to Dick?
A. Grandfather.
Q. A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat, what is it?
A. A pipe
Q. Little thing,
Little thing,
Smaller than a mouse,
Has more windows,
Than a gentleman's house
A. A thimble
Q. A duck before two ducks,
A duck behind two ducks,
And a duck between two ducks,
How many ducks are that?
A. Three(continues on next page)- Collector
- Josephine Irwin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Billa, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas Irwin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Billa, Co. Sligo