School: Cloigne
- Location:
- Clegna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 172
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- 1. Useful, useless instrument, often was bought but never was lent, the man that buys it, it is not his own, but the man it is bought for it carries him home?
Ans. a coffin.
2. I've got a little knife of ivory, it's covered round with misery, it would bang a beast, kill a bull and ten thousand men at war?
Answer. Hunger.
3. How may I change a pound note into sixteen pieces of silver with out any half crowns or sixpences?
Answer. Into twelve single shillings and four, two shilling pieces.
4. As green as grass, as red as blood, and as black as soot?
Answer. A blackberry.
5. What has a leg and a foot?
Answer. A stocking.
6. I've got a little house, it would fit on my finger and it has as many windows as the kings castle?
Answer. A thimble.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Bambrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloongreaghan, Co. Roscommon
