School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 188
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- (continued from previous page)Because a white hen lays a white egg and a black hen cannot lay a black egg.
14. What has a neck and body and nothing else? A bottle
15. What is full and you can put more into it? A pot of potatoes
16. If you lost your cap and were looking for it, what is the first thing you do when you had found it? You would leave off looking for it
17. Why should a hen never be untidy? Because she carries a little comb with her
18. What turns withoug moving? Milk
19. What is it that never was or never will be? Your small finger as big as a tree
20. It would take all that ever came or went and it would not give back as much as a pen?A grave
Collected by Annie Dowd Cloonea, Ballymore, from her Grandmother Mrs Ml. Cooney. Cloonee, Ballymoe Co. Galway (Ages 80)
- As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives,The sever wives had seven sacks. The seven sacks had seven cats, the sever cats had seven kittens. How many cats, kittlens, men and wives were going to Saint Ives?
Myself(continues on next page)
