School: Kilcomreagh (roll number 9429)
- Location:
- Kilcumreragh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: B. Hickey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 131
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- (continued from previous page)35. Deep it is, and damp it is, yet fit for any lord it is.
Ans: A grave
36. A leaper of ditches, a cropper of corn, a little brown cow with two leather horns.
Ans: A hare
37. I washed my face in water that never flowed or run, and I dried my face in a towel that was never woven or spun.
Ans: I washed my face in the dew and dried it in the sun.
38. What turns without moving
Ans: Milk turns sour.
39. Two eyes, four legs, can't see and can jump as high as Nelson's Pillar.
Ans: a dead ass (Nelson's Pillar cannot jump)
40.I went to the wood and got it, I sat down and looked for it I bought it home because I couldn't find it.
Ans. A thorn.
Thomas Hickey, Rosemount, Moate, collected from the children.
- Collector
- Thomas Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosemount, Co. Westmeath
