School: Ceis (roll number 15342)
- Location:
- Kesh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 389
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- (74) Question: As round as an apply; as flat as a pan, on one side a woman and on the other a man?
Answer: A penny
(75) Question: Tell me if you can who's the highly favoured man although he married many a wife and still he's single all his life?
Answer A priest.
(76) Question: As long as my arm,
As white as the snow,
The longer it wears,
The shorter it grows?
Answer: A Candle.
(77) Question: What is that that always walks with its head down?
Answer: A nail in your boot.
(78) Question: It's a useful instrument from once its bought. Its never lent and the man that knows never owns it and the man that owns it never knows it?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael J. Milmoe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Treanmore, Co. Sligo
