School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What turns without moving?
A. Milk turning sour.
Q. What is a horse's shoe like?
A. It it is like the other one.
Q. Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
A. A cake in the oven.
Q. As I went out a slobbery gap I met my auntie Joanie, she had timber toes and an iron nose and upon my word she would frighten the crows.
A. A gun.
Q. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, it can climb the church over steeple and all.
A. The sun.
Q. I had a roomful and I couldn't take a spoonful.
A. Smoke.
Q. It is all plain and never sick.
A. A window.
Q. As I looked out the window I saw the dead carry the live.
A. A person on a bicycle.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Patrick Joseph Killeen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon