School: Cloone (B.) (roll number 15442)
- Location:
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Teachers: T. Ó Móráin A. Ó Corraidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 053
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- (continued from previous page)Because she cannot lick it.
No 43.
What goes round the house and round the house and leaves a loaf in every window?
The snow.
No 44.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you can guess for ever but you would not guess that.
A pipe.
No 45.
What sleeps with its finger in its eye?
A Crook.
No 46.
What goes up the ladder with its head down.
A nail in a mans shoe.
No 47.
I had a little cow in the byre and all the men in Derry would not tie her.
A fly.
No 48.
A round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other a man.
A penny.
No 49.
How many sides on a pot?
Two, inside and outside.
No 50.
As I went out on yonder gap I met my uncle Davie. I cut off his head I sucked his blood and left him lying easy.
A blackberry.
- Collector
- Michael Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraun, Co. Leitrim
