School: Lathach Barr
- Location:
- Ardbane or Laghy Barr, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seaghan Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 352
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- (continued from previous page)A clock because it never washes its fare.
What is full and can hold more?
A pot of potatoes when you pour water in.
Why does a hen pick a pot?
Because she can not lick it.
Be round as an apple is plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all?
The sun
What is the difference the north pole and the south pole?
The difference of the world.
What goes out between two woods and comes in between two waters?
A man with two pails of water.
As green as grass but it is not gross as red as blood but it is not blood as black as ink but it is not ink?
A blackberry
What flys high lights low cuts the crass and never mows?
Frost
These are the guesses in the district
- Collector
- Anna Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossilly Barr, Co. Donegal
