School: Faltia
- Location:
- Faltia, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Thomas Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 186
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- 1. How many sticks goes to a crow's nest?
She brings them all.
2. I have known a little woman she has a red nose the longer she lives the shorter she grows.
A candle.
3. How deep it is, and damp it is and green upon the bank it is, fit for a gentleman or cow boy.
A grave.
4. Black and white and red all over.
A newspaper.
5. There is a little woman under the ditches if you went near her she would give the itches.
A nettle.
6. How many Christmas days more than Easter Sundays.
Thirty-three.
7. Where was Moses when the light went out.
In the dark.
8. How many cow's tails would reach the sky.
One if it was long enough.
9. What is full and holds more.
A pot full of potatoes holds water.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Gaffey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moore North, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Gaffey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Moore North, Co. Roscommon
