School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)I went up the slippery rock to meet my Aunty Mary she had timber toes and iron nose and upon my word she would frighten the crows?
Ans, a gun.
Three crows upon a line I shot two how many were left behind?
Ans, no one.
What can run but cannot walk?
Ans, a train.
What part of a cow goes over a ditch first?
Ans, her breath.
Why do robins fly over brick walls?
Ans, because they cannot fly through them.
Is it she have or she has, is it a yolk of an egg is white or are white?
Ans, a yolk of an egg is yellow.
When is a tree comfortable as a bed?
Ans, when it is down.
- Collector
- Nan Roycroft
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork
- Informant
- James Roycroft
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs J. Roycroft
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork
