School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0579, Page 130
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- A houseful a roomful and you could not catch a spoonful? Smoke
Betty inside the wall Betty outside the wall if you touch Betty she will pinch you? A nettle
I have a little house and a mouse could not fit in it and all the men in the town could not count the windows in it? A thimble
Under five over five never touches the five? A cake in an oven pot.
As i went out a slippery gap I met a thing rolled up in a sop, it was neither fish, flesh, feather or bone and in three week's time it was able to walk home? An egg.
Ink, ank under a bank ten drawing four? A person milking a cow. Tis red and tis yellow tis passable green, the king cannot come at it no more than the queen? The rain-bow.
- What is there but cannot be seen? The wind.
Twenty four white horses in a stall up comes a red one and licks them all? Your tongue and teeth.
Why is a dog with three a broken leg like a boy doing sums? because he puts three down and carries one.
What flies with four wings? two birds.
When is cook angry? when she is beating an egg.
As black as ink but not ink, As white as snow but not(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peter Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- David Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
