School: Carrickerry, Árd-achadh (roll number 11281)
- Location:
- Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Chonaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0487, Page 479
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- (continued from previous page)Q. A little white and round house and it is full of meat, but has no doors or windows to let me in to eat?
A. An egg.
Q. It went to England and it stopped there, it came home because it didn't go there?
A. A watch.
Q. If a goose were above on a house how would you get her down?
A. By plucking her.
Q. What can you knit without knitting needles?
A. Your brows.
Q. What three letters would frighten a thief when he is caught stealing?
A. I.C.U.
Q. A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat, you can guess forever but you will never guess that?
A. A pipe.
Q. Four bottles on top of a hill with their mouths turned down and they can't spill?
A. The four tits of a cow.
Q. As I went to London I saw the greatest wonder - found pots boiling and no fire under?
A. Four pots of lime boiling.
Q. In a hill there is a house, in the house there is a press, in the press there is a cup, in the cup there is a sup, and everyone must taste it?
A. Death.
Q. Chip, chip, cherry all the men in Derry could not climb it up chip, chip, cherry?
A. Smoke.(continues on next page)
