School: Faltia
- Location:
- Faltia, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Thomas Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 180
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- 1. As I looked out my grandfather's window I saw the dead carring the live?
A man cycling.
2. There is a little woman sitting in the ditch and if you go near her she will give you the itch?
A nettle.
3. Where was Moses when the light went out?
In the dark.
4. All she makes in the day is put over her at night?
Ashes.
5. I know a little woman she has a red nose the longer she lives the shorter she grows?
A candle.
6. Black and white and red all over?
Newspaper.
7. Head of the ditch the cap of the thorns a little brown cow with two leather horns?
A rabbit.
8. One half dead, one half alive and its tail wagging?
A dog eating out of a pot.
9. What is the highest thing in the wood?
A cow's low.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mulvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clooniff, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Martin Mulvey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Clooniff, Co. Roscommon
