School: Mantua (roll number 2327)
- Location:
- Mantua, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Beirn
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- (continued from previous page)Answer One sheds its leaves and the other leaves its shed.
What is it that nobody wants or nobody wants to lose it.
Answer Law
Why is a horse like an egg
Answer, Both are broken before used.
What is full and holds more
Answer. A pot of potatoes when water is poured in.
What goes round the wood but never enters the wood
Answer The bark of a tree.
Why is a horse like a sweet
Answer. The more you lick it the faster it goes.
There is a little thing as small as a mouse and it has as many windows as the king's house.
Answer. A thimble
Brown in the earth is the place of my birth but it makes my home bright when I burst into flame who will tell me my name
Answer. Coal
What is the largest key in the world
Answer. Don-key
What tree is older than the ash.
Answer The elder
- It is a sign of bad weather if there are bright rays from the sun when it is going down. If there are clouds around the sun when it is going down it is a sign of rain. If the sun is red when it is rising we shall have good weather.
When the moon has a ring around it, it is a true sign of(continues on next page) - Collector
- Shelia Harrington
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edenan and Kinclare, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Patrick Beirne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Occupation
- Farmer
