School: Kill
- Location:
- Kill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Timlin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 074
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- (continued from previous page)that? A pipe.
Why is a turkey a wise animals?
Because she never makes a goose of herself.
What goes between two woods and comes back between two waters? A man carrying two pails of water.
What walks with his head down? A nail in a man's boot.
Two saw it, five plucked it, and a number ate it? An apple.
As white as milk. as black as silk, and it hops on the road like a hailstone? A magpie.
- Collector
- Kathleen Smith
- Gender
- Female
