School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 390
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- (continued from previous page)child is my father's son. (The child was looking at his own photograph)
(6) What is the difference between a greedy boy and a hungry boy? ( On eats too long and the other longs to eat.)
(7) What goes up a ladder with its head down? (The nails in your boots)
(8) What has as many windows as a king's palace? (A thimble)
(9) I know a white lady and the longer she lives the shorter she grows? (A candle)
(10) What is too short and a bit of it is cut off to make to long enough? ( A grave)
(11) Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you won't guess that (A pipe)
(12) What time is it when there are thirty patches on a trousers? (It is time to get a new one)
(13)A houseful a roomful and you could not get a spoonful. (Air, or smoke)
(14) When was B the first letter of the alphabet? The time of Noah) No A,
(15) How many feet have forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog? (Two)
(16) As I was going to the fair of St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, seven wives had(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nell Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hawkfield, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Thomas Maguire
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Hawkfield, Co. Kildare
