School: Baile an Churraigh
- Location:
- Ballincurry, Co. Galway
- Teacher: A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 479
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- (continued from previous page)8. How many wells will make a lake?
(One and all the rest)
9. What's filled and holds more?
(A pot of potatoes when you pour in water)
10. Two legs sitting on three legs, holding one leg, in comes 4 legs take 1 leg, comes back and sits on 3 legs?
(A man holding leg of mutton, sitting on a stool, a dog comes in and takes the mutton)
11. Bink, ank, under the bank ten drawing four?
(Milking a cow)
12. As round as an apple as flat as a pan, on one side a woman and the other side a man?
(Penny)
13. A black as ink, as white as milk, ink or milk it is'nt. it hops on the road like a marble stone and a marble stone it is'nt!
(Magpie)
14. I wend up the road and down the road and carried the road on my back?
(ladder)(continues on next page)
