School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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- (continued from previous page)legs and can't walk and has ears and can't hear. What is it?
A pot.
I know a man that dies to live and lives to die, and the more he dies the better he lives.
A Clothes dyer.
As I was going through a field of wheat
I picked up something good to eat
Neither fish, flesh, feather nor bone
And I kept it till it walked alone.
An egg.
Long legs short thighs
Little head and no eyes.
A fire tongs.
What is it that no man wishes to have and yet don't wish to lose?
A bald head. - In olden times people only used three meals every day. When they would get up they would go out and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Aidan Murphy
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 36
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Drumderry, Co. Wexford