School: Ballymackney (roll number 5501)
- Location:
- Ballymackney, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)9. What goes with the train and is no good to the train, but the train can't go without it.
Answer = The noise.
10. Why does a cow look over the ditch. Answer = Because she can't look under it.
11. Through a riddle through a reel through an old spinning wheel through a bag of pepper, through a mill and hopper, through an old man's shin bone such a riddle never was known. Answer = A moth.
12. It grows in the wood it sounds in the town and earns its master many a pound. Answer = A fiddle.
Q. The black man sitting on the red man's knee
A. A pot on the fire
Q. The dead covering the live
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- Collector
- Mary Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Coolaha, Co. Monaghan
