School: Aughrim (B.)
- Location:
- Aughrim, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Hoichir
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- (continued from previous page)Because one minds the train and the other trains the mind.
(32) A house-ful, a roomful but you could not catch a spoonful?
Smoke.
(33) When is a mare not a mare?
When she is turned into a field.
(34) What is the kindest animal in the world?
A horse, because it would give you the bit out of its mouth.
(35) I have a little red cow which sits by the wall, she eats all I give her, and drinks none at all?
The fire.
(36) A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a little brown cow with two leather horns?
A hare
(37) Why is a black hen cleverer than a white hen?- Collector
- William Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aughrim, Co. Wicklow