School: Mín Charraigeach (roll number 7188)
- Location:
- Meencargagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín Nic Ghiolla Uain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 142
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- No. 1—As round as an apple,
As flat as a pan,
The half of a woman,
The whole of a man?
Answer—A Penny.
No. 2—What goes round the house and round the house and peeps in at every hole?
Answer—The sun.
No. 3—As black as ink,
As white as milk,
But milk or ink it isn’t,
It hops on the road like a marble,
But a marble it isn’t?
Answer—A Magpie.
No. 4—What three letters would frighten a thief?
Answer—I.C.U.
No. 5—Little white Mary with her little red nose,
The longer she stands the shorter she grows?
Answer—A Candle.
No. 6—It’s long and it’s narrow, it’s not very wide,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Mac Crudden
- Address
- Aghaveagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Susan Boyce
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 98
- Address
- Aghaveagh, Co. Donegal
