School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 214
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- (continued from previous page)Hardships.
- 48. What is that which walks with its head down? A nail in your boot.
49. Why does a cow look over the ditch? Because she could not lok under it.
50. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball can climb the church over the steeple and all. The sun.
51. I can see it you cannot see it yey tis nearer to you that it is to me. The back of your head.
52. What is the bow a little girl never wears? The rainbow.
53. What is a naught multiplied by a naught? Oxo.
54. A little white and round house and it is full of meat it has no door or windows to let me in to eat. An egg.
55. What must you do before you come down some steps? Go up them.
56. I went up the road, and came down the road and took the road on my back. A ladder.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Una Costello
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
