School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 281
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- Question: I sent white to put white out of the whities
Answer: I sent the white dog to put the white cow out of the white cabbage
Question: What part of a cat is the furriest
Answer: The outside
Question: What is too short cut a bit of and it is long enough
Answer: A grave
Question: As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Derry couldn't lift it up
Answer: A well
Question: Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a k
Answer: that
Question: Chip, Chip, Cherry all the men in Derry couldn't catch a spoonfull
Answer: Smoke
Question: I have a little house that a mouse couldn't sit in and all the people in the town couldn't count its windows
Answer: a thimble
Question: I washed my face in water that never rained nor run. I dried my face in a towel that never was woven nor spun.
Answer: You dried your face with the sun and you washed it in the dew.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Mulligan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Knockfad, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mosie Ebbit
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Knockfad, Co. Cavan
