School: Faltia
- Location:
- Faltia, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Thomas Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 183
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- 1. What is full and holds more.
A pot of potatoes when you pour water in it.
2. There is a little woman who lives in the lane she is every day washing and never clean.
A dish-cloth.
3. As I looked out my grandfather's window I saw the dead carrying the live.
A bicycle.
4. What goes round the wood round the wood, and never goes in the wood.
The bark of a tree.
5. Where was Moses when the light went out.
In the dark.
6. Why does a hen pick a pot.
Because she cannot lick it.
7. What part of a cow goes across a ditch first.
Her breath.
8. What burns to hide a secret.
Ceiling wax.
9 What is the first thing a stone gets when it falls into a river.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Faltia, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Faltia, Co. Roscommon
