School: Lios Uí Chearbhaill (C.), Malla (roll number 12016)
- Location:
- Lios Cearúill, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0367, Page 171
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- As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other side a man. Answer. A penny.
Two dead men fighting, two blind men looking on, two cripples running for the Priest and two dumbies saying hurry on. Answer. A lie.
What has many eyes but no nose? A potato.
What is as small as a fly's mouth? Answer. The thing that goes into it.
Two rows of white cows and a red bull in the middle. Answer Teeth and tongue.
Under the fire, over the fire and still never touches the fire. Answer. A cake in a castable.
I washed my hair in water that never rained nor rain, and I will dry my hair with a towel that never was woven nor spun. Ans. In the dew I washed my hair and will dry it with the sun.
Over the head and under the hat. What is that? Answer. Hair of the head.
The beginning of eternity,
The end of time and space,
The beginning of every end
And the end of every place. Answer. The Letter E.
There is a house and a mouse could not live in it all the people in town could not count how many windows in it? A thimble.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Fehin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lios Cearúill, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Denis Fehin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Carpenter
- Address
- Lios Cearúill, Co. Chorcaí
