School: Ceann Dáimh (roll number 16173)
- Location:
- Kinaff, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Mac Cathmhaoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 7
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- (continued from previous page)1. Why is a horse cleverer than a mouse?
Because the horse can runaway when he is harnessed to a trap and the mouse could not.
2. Why does a cow look over the fence?
Because she could not look under it.
3. It is steep and it is damp and is green over the bank and it is fir for a lord or a lady? A grave.
4. It is black and white and read all over? A newspaper.
5.Why is a black hen cleverer than a white one? Because a black hen can lay a white egg and a white hen cannot lay a black egg.
6. Round the house round the house and all heads down? The nails of your shoes.
7. Why is a man without money like a feather pillow? Because one is hard up and the other soft down.
8. Pieces and patches without any stitches? A head of cabbage.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlag, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlag, Co. Mayo
