School: Star of the Sea, Glengivney (roll number 12334)
- Location:
- Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brian Mac Giolla Easbuic
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 295
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- Q. It opens like a barn door closes like a trap, you would think on twenty things before you would think of that?
Ans. umbrella
Q. A round as an apple as flat as a pan a half of a woman and the hole of a man?
Ans. A penny.
Q. I have a wee horse with an iron throat the harder he gallops he swallow's the rope?
Ans. A sewing machine.
Q. What goes round the house and peeps into every corner.
Ans. Hailstone's.
Q. Look into my face and I am everybody scrape my back and I am no body?
Ans. A mirror.
Q. Spell the red running rogue with three letters.
Ans. Fox.
Q. I have a white and round house and it is full of meat but has no door's or window's to let me into eat?
Ans. An egg.
Q. I had a little sister they called her "peep peep" She waded the water so deep, deep, deep.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Mc Gonagle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meenletterbale, Co. Donegal
