School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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- Question - Long and lanky, deaf and dumb, has no legs and yet can run
Answer - A RiverQuestion - Black and white and read all over
Answer - A NewspaperQuestion - As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other side a man
Answer - A PennyQuestion - Why does a hen pick a pot
Answer - Because she cannot lick itQuestion - Why does a crow fly over a mountain
Answer - Because she cannot fly under itQuestion - What part of a cow comes out a gap first
Answer - Her breathQuestion - There is a little house that would not fit a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayors house
Answer - A ThimbleQuestion - As green as grass and it is not grass, as white as snow and it is not snow, as red as blood and it is not blood as black as coal and it is not coal(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridget Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garlagh Cross, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Hubert Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lismullin, Co. Meath