School: Ráth na Loch (C.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 17000)
- Location:
- Ranalough, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 065
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- (1) What is brought to the table, cut, and never eaten.
Ans. A deck of cards.
(2) What stick doe snot grow in the woods.
Ans. A candle stick.
(3) What time of the day was Adam born.
Ans. A little time before eve,
(4) Who was the first man to travel around the world.
Ans. The man in the moon.
(5) Why was Moses the most wicked man that ever lived.
Ans. Because he broke the commandments.
(6) Where was Peter when the light went out
Ans. In darkness.
(1) 'Tis in tis out, tis like a trout, tis slippery, fat and greasy.
Ans. Your tongue.
(2) It went to America, it stopped there and it came home.
Ans. A clock.
(3) 'Tis black and tis white and it hops in the road like hailstones.
Ans. A magpie.
(4) 'Tis as round as a marble as deep as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Hannon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Hannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Parknamulloge, Co. Kerry
