School: Porturlan
- Location:
- Porturlan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Tiernan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0964, Page 332
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- What is full and holds more?
A pot of potatoes when water is poured on them.
If England were the capital of Ireland and Ireland the capital of England and a man committed suicide in Manchester where would he be hung? He would not be hung at all.
There are two pigs in yonder sty.
And when they get feeding they roar and cry.
And when they get none how easy they lie?
Two millstones.
A bonnack of bread and a sheetful of crumbs?
The moon and the stars.
As I went up to yonder hill,
I saw a terrible wonder.
Four and twenty wild geese
Tearing the world asunder?
Horses harrowing.
I know two sisters who fight all day, tear each other all day, and sleep in each other's arms at night? A pair of cards, for carding wool.
What is it that goes round the wood and round the wood and never enters the wood?
The bark of a tree.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Mc Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs A. Mc Dermott
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Cavan
