School: Drom Dhá Liag (C.) (roll number 12230)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhrisceoil
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- 27th April 1938
Q. Four legs up four legs down soft in the middle and hard all round.
A. A bed.
Q. Black and white and read all over.
A. A newspaper.
Q. Over the fire and under the fire and never touches the fire.
A. A cake in a bastible
Q. As black as ink as white as milk and hops on the road like hailstone
A. A magpie
Q. The Queen of Manchester sent to her sister a bottomless vessel for holding raw meat
A. A ring.
Q. A steel horse and a brass driver
A. A needle and thimble
Q. As round as a marble as flat as a pan on one side a woman and on the other side a man
A. A penny
Q. Opens like a barn-door shuts like a trap you may think of many things before you think of that.
A. An umbrella.- Collector
- Julia Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballaghadown North, Co. Cork