School: The Vale (An Gleann)
- Location:
- Leiter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Brolcháin
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- (continued from previous page)43. What part of a cow goes into the byre first.
Ans. Her breath.44. As green as grass and it's not grass
As red as blood and it's not blood
As black as soot and it's not soot.
Ans.: A blackberry.45. As I went over to yonder gap I met a London scholar;
An' drew off his coat, An' drew off his cap
Now tell ne the name of the scholar.
Ans. Andrew.46. Three feet in the air, two feet on the ground,
A live person's head in a dead person's mouth.
Ans. A Pot on a person's head.47. On yonder river there is a plank
It is neither of ash, oak, elm or [?]
Or any other thing that ever grew.
Ans. A plank of ice.48. What goes round the house & leaves a loop in every window.
Ans: Snow.
