School: Eslin (roll number 10026)
- Location:
- Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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- Question: What is is that stands on one leg and has its heart in its head?
Answer: A head of cabbage.Q: What is it grows with the roots up?
A: Icicles.Q: Why is a dog compared with a tree?
A: Because both have a bark.Q: Round the woods and round the woods and never touches the woods?
A: A knife in a man's pocket.Q: It has a mouth and never eats and it has a bed and never sleeps?
A: A river.Q: Why are disagreeable neighbours like loose leaves in a book?
A: Because they are always falling out.Q: I have a little house that wouldn't hold a mouse and it has more windows than the Lord Mayor's house?
A: A thimble.Q: As round as an apple, as deep as a pail and it never calls out till it's caught by the tail?
A: A bell.Q: Round the house and round the house and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Faughnan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonfinnan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Joseph Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonbo, Co. Leitrim