School: Tóin an tSeanbhaile
- Location:
- Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0086, Page 278
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never saw it?
A. A coffin.
Q. Why is Ireland compared to a Church-steeple?
A. Because Belfast is in it.
Q. If all Ireland were going to get drowned which County would swim?
A. Co. Cork
Q. It's in the Priest but not in the people, it's in the Church but not in the steeple, it's in the bolster but not in the bed, it's in the grave but not in the dead?
A. The letter "R".
Q. It's as round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and all the men in Derry would not lift it up?
A. A well.
Q. Twenty eight white crows tied in a barn, the red cow came in a licked them all?
A. Your tongue licking your teeth.
Q. It's round and sound and hairy all around, and water comes out of it sometimes?
A. Your eye.
Q. Hairy in, hairy out, hairy into hairy's mouth?
A. A foot going into a stocking.
Q. It's black, it's white and it's read all over?
A. A newspaper.
Q. It's once in a minute, twice in a moment and it's never in a thousand years?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr Peter Grealis
- Gender
- Male
