School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 099
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- Q. The full of a field of white cows and a red cow in the middle.
A. Your teeth and tongue.
Q. What is it that walks on its head all day and sleeps on its head at night.
A. A brush.
Q. What is it that you have to cut a bit off to lengthen it.
A. A grave.
Q. As I went out on a guttery gap I met a man with a stick in his hand, a stone in his belly, riddle me that and I will give you a penny.
A. A cherry.
Q. Went to India, stopped in India, came back and never went in India.
A. A clock.
Q. I went up the road, I came down the road, and then took the road on my back.
A. A ladder.
Q. What is it that is full and holds more.
A. A pot of potatoes when you pour water in.
Q. Why does a cow look over a hill.
A. Because she cannot look under it.
- Collector
- Margaret Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
