School: Faithche (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Fahy More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 340
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- (continued from previous page)like a trap, and many a thing you go into before you go into that. A Coffin.
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 one.
What is the smallest room in the world? A mushroom.
Haggie, haggie, (got) on the wall, haggie, haggie got a fall. Ten score, and ten more, would'nt make haggie like she was before. An egg.
When an ass has three quarters of a turnip eaten, what time is it them? A quarter to eight.
The man that made it did not want it, the man that bought it did not use it, and the man that used it never saw it. A coffin.
- Collector
- Annie Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryribbeen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Callaghan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryribbeen, Co. Mayo
