School: Kildalkey (B.) (roll number 867)
- Location:
- Kildalkey, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Fearghail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 013
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- (continued from previous page)A pump.
What is the cure for a slow horse?
Tie him to a post and make him fast.
What is the weight of the moon?
It is four quarters or a hundred weight.
Patch upon patch without stitches?
A head of cabbage.
As I went down a boreen I met my sister Nora, silver heels, copper toes and upon my word she would frighten crows.
A gun.
Its in, its out, its like a trout, its slippery wet and grazy? Your tongue.
Hairy all over and rough on the skin, two things shaken and one going in?
A pig eating out of a trough.
Ink, ank under the bank, ten drawn four? A person milking a cow.
Round and round the wood and never goes into the wood? The bark of a tree.
What is alive at both ends and dead in the middle? A man ploughing.
I have a little sister, she lives in the ditch and if you touch her she will give you the itch? A nettle.
A barrel on the sea shore and two ends of it shut? An egg.(continues on next page)
