School: Kilmessan (C.) (roll number 4211)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Stín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0690, Page 111
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- 1. What goes up when the rain comes down?
An Umbrella.
2. How many feet has forty sheep the shepherd and his dog? Two feet.
3. Black and white and read all over?
A Newspaper
4. Its neither inside the house or outside the house but still its useful to the house?
A window
5. What has an eye and cannot see?
A needle
6. What has two eyes and cannot see?
A scissors
7. What always holds its head down?
A nail in your boot.
8. A little white woman with a red head?
A match
9. Round the house and round the house and could not catch a cupful?
Smoke
10. There was a little house and it would not fit a mouse and it had as many windows as the Lord Mayor's(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ennistown, Co. Meath
