School: Drom an Eargail, Áth Treasna (roll number 10361)
- Location:
- Dromanarrigle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 237
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- Q. What is half the moon like
A. The other half
Q. What is as crooked as the river
A. Its banks
Q. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never enters the wood
A. The bark of a tree.
Q. It is neither fish, flesh, feather, or bone and after all that it walked home
A. An egg laid outside and a chicken came out of it
Q. There is a little cow tied to the wall she would eat all she would get but drink nothing at all
A. The fire.
Q. Jacks father was Paddy's brother what was Jack to Paddy's Mother
A. A grandson
Q. what is the biggest wonder in the map of Europe
A. That Hungary did not eat Turkey
Q. What do we talk of every day and yet never comes.
A. Tomorrow
Q. What trade is most fatal
A. Dying
