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School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)

Location:
Garbally, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Mícheál Mac Giollabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 172

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    the longer she lives the smaller she grows.
    Ans: A candle
    Why does a hen pick the pot?
    Ans: Because she cannot lick it.
    What is in a cart and it cannot go without it?
    Ans: The noise
    The man that made it never wore it, the man that wore it never saw it?
    Ans: Coffin
    What goes with its head turned down?
    Ans: A nail in a boot
    It comes in on your shoulder and goes out like silk?
    Ans: Turf
    Why does a horse look over the ditch?
    Ans: Because he cannot look under it
    Twenty white horses in a hall a red one comes in and licks them all?
    Ans:Your teeth and your tongue.
    It is not my sister or my brother or the child of my father or mother who is it?
    Ans: Myself
    Heard from: John Nolan aged 69yrs
    Colemanstown
    Menlough
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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