School: Ráth Chormaic (C.) (roll number 1878)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chonchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 444
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- Q: All round the wood but never goes into the wood?
A: The bark of the tree.
Q: As red as an apple as plump as a ball climbs over church steeple and all?
A: The sun
Q: Ink and under the bank ten drawing four?
A: A woman milking a cow.
Q: Two fair ladies dressed in white got the fever and died last night?
A: Two candles.
Q: An old father and an old mother 12 children what that?
A: The clock.
Q: What goes up stairs in his head?
A: The nails of your boots.
Q: Why does a hen pick a pot?
A: Because she can't lick it.
Q: There is a little house in town a mouse couldn't live in it all the people in town couldn't count all the windows in it?
A: A thimble.
Q: As black as ink as white as milk and hops in the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Kathleen Rea
- Gender
- Female
