School: Ballyharry (roll number 11235)
- Location:
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Bríde
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- 1) A kitchen full, a roomful you could not lift a spoonful
Ans. = smoke
2) What hangs on the wall and has more eyes than us all?
Ans. = A strainer
3) "Blackie" set on "roughy" and "gloury" seen it and "glamy" shoved it into "girney"
Ans. = A blackberry
4) Four stiff standers, four down hangers, two lookers, two crooners, one licker and a switcher.
Ans. = A cow
5) Hairy out and hairy in, all hair and no skin
Ans. = A stocking
6) A large "podoodle" a small "podoodle", "podoodles" of every kind, put in a "podoodle", put out a "podoodle" and leave a "podoodle" behind.
Ans. = knitting a sock
7) As I went in a slithery slap I met a dunty bull, he kicked and I flung, if you "(y) had to been"(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sorcha Nic Canna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Daniel Mc Cann
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 44
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal