School: St. Jame's Well (roll number 14192)
- Location:
- Carrowmore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: S. Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0181, Page 003
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- (continued from previous page)20. A person that licks a mankeeper has the cure of a burn.
21. When you see the new moon for the first time and say three Hail Mary’s in honour of the queen in the moon that would cure your toothache.
22. If you had mountain sage and Alm and give the juice to drink to a person who has a cough, it will cure them.
23. If you go to a blessed well and bring home some of the clay, it will cure the pain in the back.
- 1. Everything has it and so has a needle.
Ans. A name.
2. Round the house, round the house, dragging her puddings after her.
Ans. A hen and her chickens.
3. Through the wood, and through the wood, and never touches the wood.
Ans. A knife in a man's pocket.
4. As black as ink, as white as milk hopping on the road like hail-stones.
Ans. A magpie.
5. As I went out on a dirty gap. I met my uncle David, I took off his cap and drank his blood, and left him lying easy.
Ans. A bottle of whiskey.
6. Through the wood, and through the wood and shakes the wood all over.
Ans. The wind.(continues on next page)
