School: Cooley
- Location:
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 360
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- (continued from previous page)more than I do.
Name.
6. How many sides has a bucket?
Two, the outside and inside.
7. I have a wee horse with an iron throat and the harder he goes he swallows the rope.
A spinning wheel.
8. What hangs on the wall and has more eyes than us all?
A riddle.
9. If the poker, shovel, tongs and fender cost £1.18.6 what would the coal come to?
Ashes.
10. High long "dreath" has the tongue but wants the teeth.
A wag at the wall clock.
11. As I sat on my hunkers and looked through mu winkers I saw the dead burying the living.
A man raking the fire.
12. As I went over Derry walls I heard a man giving a loud call his head was flesh his mouth was horns such a man was never born.
A cock crowing.
13. Forty sheep went out a gap forty more followed that six, seven, ten, eleven the shepherd and his dog how many feet went out the gap?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John G. Barr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glencrow, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs William Barr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glencrow, Co. Donegal
