School: Coolboyoge
- Location:
- Coolboyoge, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Roddy
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- (continued from previous page)and what is it? Ans:- A snail
Taken down by May Halliday Diggan, Ballyhaise, Cavan, VIII class. Told by my mother and father.
- Q: Long Jane, red nose the longer she sits, the less she grows? A candle.
Q: A leper of ditches a cropper of corn a little brown cow with a leather pair of horns? A Hare.
Q: What grows in the woods and sounds in the town and earns its master many a pound? A Fiddle.
Q: I washed my face in neither run nor stream and I dried it in a towel that was neither woven nor spun?
I washed my face in the dew of the grass and dried it in the heat of the sun.
Q: Two feet on the ground and three over-head, the head of the living(continues on next page) - Collector
- Florrie Gumley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Daggan, Co. Cavan
