School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- Little thing, little thing, smaller than a mouse, & it has more windows than a king's house?
A thimble(2) Little White Nancy, with the long nose.
The longer she lives, the shorter she grows.
A candle
- Collector
- Thomas Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- (1) Why could not your aunts, & uncles & cousins exist without 'you'?
Becaue they would not be aunts & uncles & cousins without 'U'.(2) Why is it unkind to mistake a fowl for a pheasant?
Because you would be making 'game' of it.(3) Which gives more eggs, a dead hen or a live one.
A dead one, as she will 'lay' wherever she is put.(4) When is a carving-knife on its travels?
When it eats its way through 'Turkey' & 'Greece'
