School: Carrigans (C.)
- Location:
- Carrigan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 139
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As round as an apple, as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other a man?
Answer:- A penny.
Why does a miller wear a white cap?
Answer:- To cover his head.
As I went in on yonder gap i met my uncle Davy I cut off his head and sucked his blood and left him lying easy?
Answer:_ A blackberry.
Give it butter it will cry - give it water and it will die?
Answer: - A fire.
Why is the sun like a hardworking carpenter?
Answer: - Because he is putting beams in all day.
What two trees remind us of the seaside?
Answer:- The bay and the beach.
What nation does a criminal dread?
Answer: - Condemnation.
In Amsterdam there is a thing and Amen holds it still. It's in every mountain but it's not in and hill. It's in every timber but its not in any wood. It's a hard matter but it's easily understood?
Answer. M
The King of Manchester bought for his sister a bottomless vessel to stick her flesh in?
Answer. A ring.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Urbal, Co. Cavan
