School: Mantua (roll number 2327)
- Location:
- Mantua, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 059
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- (continued from previous page)it cant be drowned?
Answer; The light of the sun.
It goes round the house, and round the house and it lies at the back door?
Answer; The twig.
A little messenger from house to house and it sleeps out at night?
Answer; A path.
It comes in on the shoulders of men, and goes out as a silken thread?
Answer; Turf.
I see it, and you can't see it, but it's nearer to you than it is to me?
Answer; The back of your head.
I went up the road and down the road and I carried the road on my back.
Answer; A ladder.
What is it that goes up a ladder with its downwards?
Answer; A nail in person's shoe.
Why does a cow look over the ditch?
Answer; Because she cannot look under it.
Why are coachmen like clouds?
Answer; Because they hold the reins.
The more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
Answer; A hole in the ground.
What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer; A needle.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Mc Gann
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Sharkey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 88
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Brackloon, Co. Roscommon
