School: Borris (B.)
- Location:
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Loinneáin
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- (continued from previous page)"how can you expect a dead woman to talk" and he thought she was only joking. He drove the horse quickly then and when he was going by the chapel gates in Ballymurphy the woman disappeared out of the car. He went home very quick. He took the horse from under the car and let him into the house.
He ran into the kitchen and went up to bed. When his brother got up the next morning he went out to the stables and when he saw the state the horse was in he was very vexed.
- Question? What is that is full in the day and empty at night?
Answer A shoe
Question What is that you have and I haven't but I make more use of than you?
Answer Your name
Question What goes into the water red and comes out black?
Answer A burning coal(continues on next page) - Collector
- Jim Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Borris, Co. Carlow
