School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 176
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- What walks with its head down.
Ans = A nail in your boot
Q As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church wall over steeple and all.
A The sun
Q Headed like a tumble, tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you won't guess that
A A pipe
Q What goes away between two woods and returns between two waters.
A A man fetching a pail of water.
Q What is it that you have and I have not and I that haven't it makes more use if it than you that has it
A Your name
Q Whats full and holds more.
A A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
Q As I went into a garden of wheat I picked up a thing that any man could eat it was neither fish, flesh or bone and in three weeks it walked alone. Ans = An egg. Mary McCormack
By Patrick McCormack
Aged 53 years
Downs Mullingar
Born in and living in the Downs
- Collector
- Mary Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
