School: Foynes (C.) (roll number 2814)
- Location:
- Foynes, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eithne Ní Mhaidín
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- (continued from previous page)white goat to leave down the white head of cabbage.
Q = Black and white and red all over. (read)
A = A newspaper.
Q = Which is the duck or the goose the gander.
A = Neither of them
Q = If you got up on a ass in Foynes where would you get down.
A = Under a goose’s wing.
Q = What is that which always walks on its head.
A = A nail.
Q = Two dead men fighting, two blind men looking on, two cripples running for the police, and two dummies shouting hurry on.
A = A lie.- Collector
- Eibhlis de Phoire
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Scully
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 93
- Address
- Foynes, Co. Limerick