School: Knockanevin (roll number 4122)
- Location:
- Knockanevin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Crosáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 484
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I have a little red cow. She sits by the wall. She eats all I give her and drinks none at all.
[A fire]
Where do soldiers go after a long March?
[Into April]
A tub without a bottle full of man’s meat?
[A thimble]
What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it would be?
[A hole]
Why does a cow look over a ditch?
[Because she cannot look under it]
What is it that goes all round the house and stops at the door?
[ A sweeping brush]
What goes up when the rain comes down?
[An umbrella](continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christina Mc Grath
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockanevin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Mc Grath
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Postman
- Address
- Knockanevin, Co. Cork
