School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 448
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- Q. It's here it's there it's every where it's up in Castlemaine. It takes a bite bigger than a horse's bite and never swallows it after? A. A pike of hay.
Q. Big-belly mother, crooked-legs father, three little children all working together? A. A pot.
Q. What takes a bite as big as a horse's and never swallows after? A. A scythe.
Q. If I had a hundred pairs of white stockings and a hundred p[airs of black stockings and a blind man wanted to get a pair of the same colour, what would he do? A. Take three of them.
Q. As green as grass but grass it isn't as red as blood but blood it isn't as black as ink but ink it isn't? A. A blackberry.
Q. It's as round as a marble as flat as a pan all of a woman and half of a man? A. A penny.
Q. It's laid on the table it's cut and passed but never eaten? A. A deck of cards.
Q. Hairy hairy mongo sitting on his pongo eating all the snow-balls? A. A goat eating white cabbage.
Q. What boils without fire? A. Lime.
Q. Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes? A. A tongs.
Q. What part of a cow goes over the ditch first? A. Her breath.
Q. Up Chip-cherry and down Chip-cheery all the men in Kerry couldn't climb Chip-cherry? A. Smoke.
Q. Lady page sat in a cage like a lovely hen. All her children died with age and she is still alive? A. A tree.(continues on next page)
