School: Gallen
- Location:
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T.R. Goodwin
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The fire
(2) If I shut one eye I can see more than you can see with two eyes.
Because I can see your two eyes and you can only see one of mine
(3) Under the wall and over the wall and never touches the the wall.
Oats in a rats stomach
(4) What is neither inside or outside but shows the inside and the outside.
A window
(5) Four dilly danders
Four (stick) stiff standers
Two lookers
Two crookers
And a fly beater.
A cow
(6) What side of an ass is the hairiest.
The outside
(7) There is a thing with a red nose and the longer it lives the smaller it grows.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Anne Fogarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Noggusboy, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- John Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Noggusboy, Co. Offaly