School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 410
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- Q. What part of a cow goes out in a gap first.
A, Her breath.Q. As round as an apple as deep as a a pail and it never cries out till its caught by the tail.
A. The Chapel bell.Q. As I went up a high hill I looked down a low hill I saw my uncle Tom and he standing in a pond and his green coat on.
A. A rush growing in a pond of water.Q. Forty sheep went out in a gap twenty white and twenty black, there times seven twice eleven three and two how many is that?
A Five.Q. Queen Vrohoco built a ship an in that ship her daughter lay an I'll be hanged for telling her name an there is three times I told it, what was her name?
A. Ann.Q. Neither fish, flesh, feather, or bone and in three weeks time it walks alone.
A. A chicken.(continues on next page)
