School: Foynes (C.) (roll number 2814)
- Location:
- Foynes, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eithne Ní Mhaidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0483, Page 020
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- It's black and white and red all over
Ans = A newspaper
The man that made it never wore it, the man that wore it never saw it
Ans= coffin
I had a little house and a mouse could not fit in it, all the men in county Limerick could not count all the windows in it
Ans= A temble
It is under water, over water, and never touches water
Ans= A woman crossing a bridge with a pale of water on her head
As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, the head of a woman, the whole of a man
Ans = A penny
What turns without moving
Ans= sweet milk turing sour
It unites by dividing and it devides by uniting
Ans= scissors
Two dead men fighting, two blind(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Nic Aodha
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs B. Dundon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Aughinish East, Co. Limerick
