School: Carrowbeg (roll number 10754)
- Location:
- Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rachel Nic an Ridire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 455
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- What has an eye and cannot see?
A needle
What would make more noise than a pig under a gate?
Two pigs
When is a cow the roundest?
When she is in a barrel.
What makes a cow slever?
Because she cannot spit
What gets wet with drying?
A towel
Two feet on the ground and three over head, the head of the living, and the mouth of the dead?
A man with a pot on his head.
Three feet on the ground and four feet on the ground, the head of the living and the mouth of the dead?
A dog licking a pot.
What makes a cow look over the hill?
Because she cannot look through it.
Hairy out and hairy in, lift your leg and stop it in?
A stocking
What has a tongue and cannot speak?
A shoe
What makes a cow roar?
Because she cannot speak.
Where was Moses when the light went out?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Constance Norris
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Collector
- Margaret Lyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal
