School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 392
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- (continued from previous page)egg but a white hen cannot lay a black egg.
What words spells the same backward and forward?
Ans. Reviver.
What kind of hair had Moses' dog?
Ans. Dog hair.
If you had five apples, which of them would you eat first?
Ans. The odd one.
The King of Morocco built a ship an(d) in the ship his daughter sits an(d) I'll be blamed for telling her name an(d) that's three times I named her name?
Ans. Ann.
What has wings and cannot fly?
Ans. A cart.
- We keep cows, horses, sheep, pigs, hens and calves. The cows have no names. When driving the cows home, if they tend to wander, we say Chay" Chay! or How! How!(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mac Feely
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Mac Feely
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
