School: Ballintemple
- Location:
- Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Nic Eoin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 172
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- Q What has many eyes and cannot see.
A A potato.
Q What is as black as ink as white as milk and hops in the road like hailstones.
A A magpie.
Q What goes up the ladder with its head down.
A A nail in a man's boot.
Q What is black and white and red (read) all over.
A The Celt.
Q What holds the two full's of itself.
A A pot of potatoes and water.
Q Where was the first potato got
A In the ground.
Q Why does a cow look across a fence.
A Because she cannot look under it.
Q Why is your nose not twelve inches.
A Because it would be a foot.
Q A big bellied father a small bellied mother and three children just like each other
A A pot.
Q What hangs over the bog all the days of the year.
A The crook.
Q What leaves a loaf in every window.
A Snow.
Q I went to the wood to bring home Brusney, it was neither oak, ash, or yew or any other tree,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Kilroy
- Gender
- Female
