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School: Tullaroan (C.) (roll number 3530)

Location:
Tulach Ruáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
Teacher:
Cáit, Bean Uí Eidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 153

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    What has an eye and cannot see.
    A needle.?.
    What part of a cow goes over the ditch first.?.
    Her Breath.
    How many feet has forty sheep a shepherd and his dog?
    Two feet.
    What goes round the floor all day and sleeps at night.?
    The brush.
    What has a needle that every-thing else has.?.
    A name.
    The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
    A coffin.
    Which part of a car reaches the town first.?.
    The noise
    As black as ink and white as milk and hops on the road like hailstones.?.
    A magpie.
    What has two feet and cannot walk.?.
    A dead person.
    What County in Ireland can be put in a bottle.?.
    Cork.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
        1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Walton
    Gender
    Female