School: Clonrye
- Location:
- Clonrye, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 318
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- Q: There was a man, he had no eyes, he went out to view the skies. He sa an apple tree with apples on it. He pulled no apples off it nor left no apples on it.
Ans: The man had one eye, the apple tree bore two apples he took one apple.
Q: What bears and never blossoms.
Ans: The crook.
Q: There was an apple tree with three apples on it, three lords passed by. Each lord pulled and apple. Still there were two left.
Ans: One lord was each lord.
Q: Why does a man go up the hill.
Ans: Because he cant go under it.
Q: My mother sent me over to your mother for the loan of an empty vessel to hold flesh and blood.
Ans: A ring.
Q: I have a wee house it would not hold a mouse there are more windows on it than the lord mayor's house.
Ans: A thimble.
Q: The leaper of hedges, the cropper of ditches my bonny wee cow with the leather pair of horns.
Ans: A hare.(continues on next page)
