School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0763, Page 166
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- (continued from previous page)47. What goes out between two woods and comes in between two waters - a man carrying two buckets of water.
48. If it takes a yard of cloth to make a coat for a man what will it take to make a suit? A tailor.
Written by John Reilly, Cloughernal, Granard. aged -
49. What runs fast and is still in bed? - water.
50. How many feet has forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog - two feet.
51. What hangs over the bag all days of the year? The Crook.
52. What's full and holds more? a pot full of potatoes.
53. Whitey and blackey went up the hill blacky came down but whitey stood still?
a hen and an egg.
54. As I went out on yonder gap I met my uncle Davie. I knocked him down & sucked his blood and left him lying easy? a blackberry.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 9
- Address
- Druminacrehir, Co. Longford
