School: Baile Droichid, Cathair Dún Iascaigh (roll number 10533)
- Location:
- Ballydrehid, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Donnchadh Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)and timber toes and pass my word she would frighten the crows? A gun
Hairy all over, rough in the skin, two things working and one going in? A sow eating her food.
As round as a marble, as deep as a cup and all the kings horses could not fill it up? A well
Why is Black and white and read all over? A newspaper
What four letters would frighten a thief? O.I.C.U.
As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Davy, I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body easy? A bottle of wine.
Two legs sitting on three legs with on leg on his lap. In comes four legs and ran away with one leg, lets up jumps two legs caught up three legs and flung it at four legs to make one leg come back.? A man sitting on a stool with a leg of mutton on his lap.
A dog comes in and ran away with the meat. Up jumps the man and caught up the stool and threw it after the dog to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Malachy Brett
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Brett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Cappauniac, Co. Tipperary
