School: Stoneyford, Thomastown (roll number 3029)
- Location:
- Stonyford, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Finghín Mac Íobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 014
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- What turns without moving?
Milk turns sour.Why is a proud lady like a drunkard?
They are both fond of the glass.Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you will never guess that?
A pipe.What has a tongue and cannot talk?
A boot.As I went out in a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy, I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body easy?
A bottle of stout.What goes up a ladder with its head down?
A nail in a man's boot.What has a mouth but cannot talk?
A river.Little white Nancy with a red nose the longer she lives the shorter she grows?
A candle.Alive at each end and dead in the middle?
A man ploughing.When is beef the highest?
When the cow jumps over the moon.
- Collector
- Alice Coyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Walton's Grove or Mountjuliet, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Peter Coyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Walton's Grove or Mountjuliet, Co. Kilkenny
