School: Woodland (roll number 8464)
- Location:
- Woodland, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Mrs Crossan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 42
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- (1) What has two arms and four legs but never moves? (An armchair)
(2) When is a porter like an elephant? (When he carries a trunk)
(3) What has lots of rings but no fingers (A doorbell)
(4) As round as an apple, as plump as a ball. It can climb over the church, steeples and all. (The Sun)
(5) What ship do most try to avoid? (Hardship)
(6) Deep down in the earth is the place of my birth, I am as black as the night but your home I make bright. when I burst into flames. Who can tell me my name? (Coal)
(7) What is it that is in every house and is not worth three half-pence? (A dish-cloth)
(8) What lies under the bed every night and looks for its bones in the morning? (A pair of shoes)
(9) What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns many a half-crown for its master. (A fiddle)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnanees Lower, Co. Dhún na nGall
