School: Cúil Mhaoile (Scoil N. Feichín)
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0178, Page 012
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- (continued from previous page)A. One is hard up and the other is soft down.
Q. Long and narrow, thin and tall many a man caused to fall
A. A gun
Q. A useless, useless instrument from once it is bought it is never lent.
A. A coffin.
Q. It is neither within nor without and it is under the roof of the house.
A. A window.
Q. What is the difference between a shoemaker and a tinker?
A. One is for keeping out the water and the other is for keeping in the water.
Q. The more you take out of it the bigger it gets.
A. A grave
Q. In a garden there was made a most beautiful maid, as fresh and as fair as the morning. She was made a wife the first hour of her life and died before she was born.
A. Eve
Q. What weight is the moon?
A. Four quarters.
Q. On which side of a cup is the handle?
A. The outside.
Q. What is it that we often return but never borrow.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- William O' Connell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Glen, Co. Sligo
