School: Dangan (roll number 7352)
- Location:
- Dangan (King), Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Thomas O' Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0254, Page 293
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- (continued from previous page)reach the moon?
Ans. One if it was long enough.
Round the wood, round the wood and does not touch it?
Ans. The bark of a tree
If there were three crows on a tree, and you threw a stick at one of them and killed her. How many were left?
Ans. No one was left because they all flew away when you killed one
Fall and hold more?
Ans. A bucket of potatoes
Why does a cow look over a ditch?
Ans: Because she cannot look under it
Why did Cane kill Able?
Ans. Because he was able
Where was Moses when the light went out?
Ans. In the dark
Spell broken down ditch in three letters
Ans. GapMartin Conlon
Told to me by Bridie Healy
- Collector
- Martin Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bridie Healy
- Gender
- Female
