School: Bunninadden
- Location:
- Bunnanaddan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: John J. Rochford
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0275
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- G In went to the wood for a load of timber.
I did not bring a straight stick nor a crooked stick What did I bring?
A A load of saw dust
G Black and white and red all over?
A A newspaper
G As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman the other a man?
A A penny.
G Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you wont guess that?
A a pipe.
G How many spools of thread it take to reach the moon?
A One if it was long enough.
G It goes round the house and round the house and lies at the back door?
A A brush.
G As I sat on my hunkers I looked through my winkers and I saw the dead burring the live?
A The ashes burning the coals.
G It goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
A A bark of a tree.
- Collector
- Josephine Spelman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynaraw North, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Spelman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynaraw North, Co. Sligo
