School: Ballydurrow
- Location:
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hadarnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0998, Page 291
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- (continued from previous page)13 A head like a thimble and a tail like a rat. You may guess for ever but you'd never guess that (A Pipe)
14 As light as a feather; as white as an angel
Heavy and darker when you squeeze it together ( A snowball)
15 What goes up the ladder with its head down? (A nail in a man's shoe)
16 Why does a donkey eat thistles? ( Because he is an ass )
17 Smoke in the wood and no fire [?](Cow dung)
18 What is the deepest thing in the world? ( A tailor's thimble as it has no bottom.)
19 I went to the wood and got it. I sat down and looked at it. I brought it home because I couldn't find it. ( A thorn in my finger)
20 Blackie and Whitie went over the hill
Blackie came back and Whitie stood still
( A hen having an egg)
21 Londonderry, Cork and Kerry. Spell me that without a K ( that )
22 Backwards and forwards it spells just the same.
A little town in Ireland. Can you spell its name?
( Navan )
23 As I look through my window I look through my gold ring. I saw the dead carrying a live
Was not that a wonderful thing. [?] ( A traid)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hetherton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghdorragh, Co. Cavan
