School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0763, Page 169
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- 70. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood? The bark of a tree.
71. What goes round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night? The beesam
72. What is neither inside nor outside and is in the house? The window.
73. Written by Mary E. McNerney, Mullinroe. Dring, Granard. aged 13 years.
What has an eye and cannot see? -a needle.
74. What comes to you without calling it? -a river.
75. What is it you don't want to have but you would like to win it? Law
76. How is a woman disformed when she is mending her stocking? Her hand is where her foot should be.
77. What does a king do with his boots when he wears them out? He wears them in again.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellen Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Druminacrehir, Co. Longford
