School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)
- Location:
- Gleann Tóchair, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 415
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- (continued from previous page)river to rob a bird's nest. There were four eggs in it. Each one of them took one, how many were left? Two.
35) Why does a clock not strike eighteen? Because it hasn't he face to do so.
36) It's long and it's narrow and it's not very wide and it wears a green selvedge on every side? The road.
37) Hard working father, lazy mother, twelve young children all together? The face of the clock.
38) When was beef the highest? When the cow jumped over the moon.
39) There's a little white and round house and it is full of meat, and there's no door or window to let me in to eat? An egg.
40) Long legs, short things, wee head and no eyes? The tongs.
41) What works all day and sleeps in its own dirt? A broom.
42) As I was running a thing I found and for to find it I searched around. If I had got it I would throw it away, but if I had not got it, I would keep it all day? A thorn in your foot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susie Mac Cole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleann Tóchair, Co. Dhún na nGall
