School: Carn (roll number 12537)
- Location:
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Miadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)No.8. It opens lika a barn door, it shuts like a trap you would guess one hundred and fifty times but you wouldn't guess that. "An umbrella."
9. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches. "a head of cabbaage."
10. Over the water and under the water and always with its head down.
" A nail in the bottom of a ship."
11. Why is a spider a good correspondent "Because he drops a line at every post."
12. Why is a postage stamp like an obstinate donkey. " Because the more you lick it, the more it sticks."
13. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman, and the other side a man. " A penny."
14. Headed like a thimble and tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you won'tguess that. "Pipe."
15. As sound as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Cawley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
