School: Beanntraighe (3) (roll number 10548)
- Location:
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Íde Hurst
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0281, Page 189
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- 1 As round as a marble, as deep as a cup and all the king's army would not take it up. Ans A Well.
2 What gets larger the more you take out of it. Ans. A hole in the ground.
3 Black I am, brown I'll be; many the man that injured me; he kicked my head and broke by face and drew me from my native place. Ans. Turf
4 Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you can't guess that. Ans A pipe
5 Long and lanky deaf and dumb has no legs and yet can run
6 As black as ink, as white as milk and hops on the road like hailstone Ans A magpie.
7 The man that made it never wore it and the man the wore it never saw it. Ans. A coffin.
8. What is the smallest house in the world and any man could not count its windows
Ans. A thimble
9 As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman and the half of a man Ans A penny.
10. What goes under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire. A cake in a bastilble
11. What is it that's empty but still has something in it. Ans. A jug with a crack in it.
- Collector
- Mary Draper
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Scart, Co. Cork
