School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 137
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- 1 What animal walks on four legs in the morning, and on two at noon and walks on three in the afternoon.
Ans. Man
2 It was four weeks old before Adam was born. Before it was five weeks old Adam was over four hundred years.
Ans. The moon
3 From Heaven I fall. On earth I begin. No lady on earth can show such a skin; I am as white as an Angel and as light as a feather; I am heavy and dark if you squeeze me together.
Ans. Snow
4 There was a man he had no eyes. He went out one night to view the sky. He saw a tree with apples on. He pulled no apples or left no apples on.
Ans. There were two apples on the tree and he pulled one.
5 What man wears the biggest hat.
Ans. The man with the biggest head.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Mayo
