School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)71. As I went out my grandfather's gap I saw a ship full of people and not a single one in it?
- They were all married.72 Upstairs, downstairs, windows made of glass,
In the king's parlour there dwells a pretty lass,
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes,
Tip her in the middle and away she goes.
- a gun.73 Two feet hanging, four feet ganging, and four feet lying in press?
- A man riding a Mare with foal.Except of the word "ganging" this has all the marks of an old-time native.74 The man that made it did not want it; the man that bought it would not keep it; the man that got it could not tell whether it fitted him ill or well.
- A coffin.This is old.75 What goes up the chimney down, but won't go down the chimney up?
- An umbrella.76 When is a soldier not half a soldier?
- When he is in quarters.77 What's like a horse's shoe?
- A mare's shoe78 What's like half the moon?
- The other half.(continues on next page)
