School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Céin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 441
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- As black as ink as white as milk & it hops on the road like hailstone?
Magpie.Why do you go to bed.
Because the bed wont come to you.There's a deer in Peter's park without skin, flesh, feather or bone & in Peter's park it walks alone?
The sunTo legs sat upon 3 legs, one leg an 2 legs, in comes 4 legs & takes away one leg. Up gets 2 legs, fire away 3 legs and brings back one leg?
A woman with a leg of mutton on her lap & a dog takes it. She throws the stool at him & goes out & brings in the leg of mutton.Look at me on the face. I'm everybody, scratch my back & I'm nobody?
a looking glass.What is most like a horse shoe?
His other shoe.I went into the wood & got it. I looked for it & could not find & yet brought it home in my leg?
A thornWhat is it that has a head and cannot think, one leg and cannot walk?
A pin.Patch upon patch without any stitches?
A head of cabbage.What goes up when the rain comes down?
An umbrella.For stumps standing, 4 lillies hanging, 2 look about, 2 crook about & a whip about.
A Cow.What is the greats wonder in the map of Europe?
That Hungary did not eat Turkey.Why does a cow look over the ditch?
Because she can't look under it.If a fellow met a fellow in a field of green, could a fellow tell a fellow what a fellow mean. How many f's in that?
None.(continues on next page)
