School: Corlis
- Location:
- Corlis, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns for its master many a pound.?
A. A violin.
Q Twenty four white cows standing in a hall up comes a red one and licks them all.
A. Your tongue licking your teeth.
Q. What goes round the house and round the house and leaves a loaf in every window?
A. Snow.
Q. What always covers its face with its hands?
A. The clock.
Q. What is always behind time?
A. The back of the clock
Q. Black, and white, and red all over.
A. The newspaper.
Q. What has teeth and no mouth?
A. A comb.- Collector
- Teresa Robinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumgoon, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr John Robinson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Drumgoon, Co. Cavan