School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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- (continued from previous page)What is half the shyest thing in the house.
The clock because it always has its hands to its face.
What is always full of pains. A window.
What side of a jug is the handle at.
The outside.
As I went into a field of wheat I picked up something good to eat. It was neither flesh, fish, feather nor bone and in three weeks time it would walk alone. A hen egg.
- What part of the cow reaches the ditch the first.
Her breath.
As round as a marble as flat as a pan, half of a woman and the whole of a man.
A penny. - Collector
- William Beston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Beston
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Betty inside the ditch and if you go near Betty she will bite you.
A nettle.
Black and white and red all over. A newspaper.
Use me well and I am everybody. Scratch my back and I am nobody. A mirror.(continues on next page)
