School: Gort Sceithe (roll number 13062)
- Location:
- Gortskehy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 188
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- (continued from previous page)5. A steel horse crosses a bone bridge
And a brass whip driving her
(A needle, a thimble and a button)
6. What smells most in a chemist shop?
(Your nose)
7. Why is a tramp compared to a pillow?
(One is hard up, the other is soft down)
8. Why should Ireland be the richest country in the world?
(Because the capital is Dublin)
9. What is this that is always turning and never falls
(The world)
0. What would you put into an empty half barrel to make it 2 stone lighter
(Auger[?] holes)
1. What has the roughest coat in the world?
(A hedge-hog.)
2. What is it that has the use of its limbs and never walks?
(A frog)
3. How many sides in a coat?
(Two)
54. Cork and Kerry and Londonderry spell that without a 'k'
(That)
55. Humpty, dumpty got a great fall
Humpty, dumpty down off the wall
All the king's horses and all the kings men
Wouldn't put it together again.
(An egg)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Cléirigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Annefield, Co. Mayo
