School: Mullach Buí (roll number 2793)
- Location:
- Castletowncooley, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Micheál De Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0658, Page 283
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- (continued from previous page)What lives upon its own substance and dies when it has devoured itself? (A candle.) What letter of the alphabet is necessary to make a shoe? (The last.) Why does the porter at the gate cut a hole in your ticket? (To let you through.) What is all over Ireland? (The sky.)Margaret M Finegan,
Castlecarra,
Riverstown,
Dundalk.
11th May 1938
- Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches. (A head of cabbage.) Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you will never guess that. (A pipe.) A man married his own sister one time, how could that be? (The man was a priest and when his sister was getting married he married her.) Chip, chip cherry all the men in Derry could not climb up Chip Chip cherry what is chip chip cherry? (Smoke.) Why do girls like looking at the moon? (Because there is a man in it.) Why is a shoemaker's shop like hell? (Because there are a lot of bad soles in it.) Why does a hen pick a pot? (Because she cannot lick it.) What is under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire? (A cake in an oven.) What is the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Evelyn M. Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Louth
