School: Cnoc, Abbeyleix (roll number 2324)
- Location:
- Knockardagur, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seán Ó Huallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)and man I tired, gold and silver for me was paid in the ash-pit now I am laid?
Answer=Coal.
There was a roomful and I could not get a spoonful?
Answer= Smoke.
Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry spell me that without a k?
Answer= T.h.a.t.
Red, white, olive, and green, the king can't get it neither the queen?
Answer=A rainbow.
What goes from house to house and is out all night
Answer= A road
The king of Manchester sent home to his sister a bottomless vessel to put flesh in?
Answer=A ring.
Reeby-Bowly on the wall, Reeby-Bowly got a fall, all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Relly-Bowly together again.
- Collector
- Margaret Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghnacross, Co. Laois
