School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 214
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- Ink _ ank under bank, ten drawing four?
A person milking a cow.
What is it that has no head, no body only four fingers and a thumb?
A Glove.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you will never guess that?
A pipe.
I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayor's house?
A thimble.
What turns without moving?
Milk.
What goes from here to Dublin without moving?
The road.
What is it a girl has and a boy has not, Luke has it before, Paul has it behind and Michael Kelly has it in two places?
The letter "L".
A man has it and he does not want to have it and he can't do without(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosaleen Hughes
- Informant
- Margaret Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Nicholas Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
