School: Cuilleán
- Location:
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: León P. Mac Eachmharaigh
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- (continued from previous page)both made a firm resolution never to drink any sorts of spirits from that on.
- What makes a pair of shoes? Two shoes.
What has three feet and no legs? A yard.
A green man in the garden with a hundred coats? A head of cabbage.
Under the fire and over the fire, and does not touch the fire at all? A cake in an oven.
It came in on the peoples back, and went out, as fine as flour? Turf.
A small man standing on the wall, he drinks all he gets and eats nothing? A lamp.
I know a little house, and a mouse would not fit into it, and all the men in town would not count all the windows in it? A Thimble.
What side of the mug is the handle? On the outside.
Why is a white hen cleverer than a black one? Because a white hen cannot lay a black egg, and a black hen can lay a white egg. - Collector
- Austin Canny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boleyboy, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- William Canny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Boleyboy, Co. Mayo
