School: Eaglais
- Location:
- Eglish, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Heifearnáin
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“What goes up and what goes down and never touches earth or sky?”
Name: Patrick Carroll, Ballykealy
Age: About 45 years. Farmer
Date: 25-11-1937What goes up and what goes down and never touches earth or sky?
A. A handle of a pump.Long and lank board and narrow it has no legs and yet can run?
A. A river.Black and white and red all over?
A. A newspaper.What is the difference between a schoolmaster and a stamp?
A. Stamps sticks with a lick and the master licks with a stick.A little white man with a little red nose the longer he lives the shorter he grows?
A. A candle.As round as apple as deep as a cup all the king's horses would not draw it up?
A. A well.Black I am and much admired, men and horses I have tired, gold and silver I have made, on(continues on next page)- Informant
- Patrick Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballykealy, Co. Offaly