School: Kilmacowen (roll number 14441)
- Location:
- Kilmacowen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Mac Giolla Pheadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0159, Page 014
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- (continued from previous page)Ans: A beggar-man's bag.
(8) "Round the house and round the house and stands in the corner."
Ans. The Broom.
(9) "Through the wood and through the wood with its head down."
An. A tack in a man's shoe.
(10) "Fourty white horses on a red hill, here they go there they go now they stand still."
Ans. Your teeth and gums.
(11) "As I looked out my grandfather's window I saw twenty-four little devils digging up the ground." What's that?
Ans. A Harrow harrowing.
(12) "Why is a vain young lady like a Drunkard"?
Ans. Because they are both fond of the glass.
(13) "What has four feet and one foot."
Ans. A Bed
(14) "What has two hands adn cannot was its own face."
Ans. A clock,
(15) "What man wears the largest hat?"
Ans. The man with the largest head.
(16) "When is a shoe-maker dying?"
Ans. When he leaves down awl (all) and prepares his (sole) soul for the last.
(17) "A messenger from house to house and it does be out at night." Ans. A path.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael J. Gilgan
- Gender
- Male
