School: Crannach, Inis
- Location:
- Cranny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0603, Page 025
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What is that that goes with the car, comes with the car, and the car cannot go without it
A. The noise of the car.
Q. Twenty four white cows tied in a stall, the red cow came in and licked them all.
A. Your teeth and tongue
Q. What is often brought to the table, always cut, and never eaten.
A. A deck of cards.
Q. Two ducks before a duck, two ducks after a duck, a duck in the middle and a duck at each side, how many ducks altogether?
A. Three ducks
Q. There are in a large house four corners, and four angles, there is a cat sitting on every corner and every angle, there is a cat sitting on every cats tail, and a cat looking at every cat, how many cats altogether.
A. Four cats.
Q. I have a little house and a mouse would not fit in it, and all men in town would not count all the windows in it.
A A thimble
Q Over gravel I did travel, over stick I did stand, I rode the mare that never foaled, and I carried the bridle in my hand.
A. A boat.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh West, Co. Clare
