School: Carra
- Location:
- An Cairthe, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 384
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- (continued from previous page)10. What goes up when the rain comes down. Answer = Umbrellas.
11. Its deep adn its damp and its green over bank and its fit for a Lord or a lady. Answer = a grave.
12. What is full and holds more. Answer.= A pot fill with potatoes.
13. I went up the road and down the road and carried the road on my back. Answer.=A ladder.
14. Over the fire and under the fire and never touches the fire.=Answer.=A cake in an oven.
15. A fiddler in Dublin had a brother a piper in Cork, but the piper in Cork had no brother a fiddler in Dublin atall. Answer.= He had a sister a fiddler in Dublin.
16. There were two brothers walking by a graveyad. One of them said I must go in here to pray for my brothers son and the other said I wont go in because I have no brothers son to pray for. What was the dead child to the man that did not go in. Answer.= He was his son.
17. What is that brought to a table often cut and never eaten. Answer. = A pack of cards.
18. Onc growing with leaves on it, alive with skin and hair on it and its now dead with live bones in it. Answer = A pair of clogs.
19. What is that going from London to York without moving? Answer.= A road.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Judge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Bhríde, Co. Mhaigh Eo
