School: Durrus, Bantry (roll number 13023)
- Location:
- Durrus, Co. Cork
- Teacher: L. Blennerhassett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0285, Page 166
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- (continued from previous page)What is it that is full of holes and yet it holds water? A sponge.Why did the turnip fly? Answer is unknown.What is the first thing one does when one goes to bed? Makes an impression.What part of Adam went first into the garden of Eden? His shadow.What bridge can one never walk on? The bridge of the nose.What room can one never enter? A mush roomWhat has four legs at morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening? Man, as a baby he walks on all fours, when he grows up he walks on his own legs, and on his old age he walks with at the aid of a stick.What is that which never was, never is and never shall be? A mouses nest in a cat's ear.In every window and through every shack, all round the house and never leaves a track? The Wind.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susannah Jane Pyburn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Pyburn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
