School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)eyes- A tongs.
Round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood _ The bark of a tree.
Put a bit to it and you'll make it shorter take a bit from it and you'll make it longer._ A grave
Why is a judge's nose like the centre of the earth _ Because it is the centre of gravity
Under the water over the water and never touches the water. _ An egg in a duck's crow.
As round as a marble as sharp as a lance if you got up on it it would carry you to France._ The moon.
Five white cows tied to a wall in goes one red one and fills them all_ Your tongue going over your teeth
What side is the handle of the cup on _ The outside.
Why is a woman so much like a pig. _ Because neither of them is easy till they get the ring(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Nelson
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Nelson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Meath
