School: Muine Mór (roll number 13456)
- Location:
- Meenymore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Liam Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 328
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- (continued from previous page)A. Ice
Q. What is that which you should keep after giving it to someone close?
A. Your word.
Q . What is taken from you before it is given to you?
A. Your photograph.
Q. Why is a horse cleverer than a fox?
A. Because a horse can run in a trap and a fox cant.
Q. What goes away above the ground and returns under it?/
A. A man with sods on his head.
Q. As white as flour but it is not flour as green as grass but it is not grass as red as a rose but it is not a rose as black as ink but it is not ink?
A. A blackberry
Q. What belongs to yourself and is used by your friend more than yourself ?
A. Your name
Q. What relation is that child to its father who is not its mothers son?
A. A daughter
Q.What goes in dry and comes out wet?
A. Tea
Q. Why is a black hen better than a white?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen A. Mc Partlin
- Gender
- Female
