School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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- (continued from previous page)to look for it but the more I looked for it, the more I hated it
Answer: A thorn in the foot
Question: What weight is the Moon
Answer: A hundred weight. Because there are four quarters in it.
Question: As round as an apple as flat as a pan, one side a womand and the other a man.
Answer: A penny
Question: I have a big gray goose she is large of her size and those who go with her would need to be wise. She has legs in her body and walks upon none and seeks her lodgings far from home.
Answer: A ship
Question: I went up the garden one day and I met a table. It was neither a table of ash nor oak nor any kind of timber in the world, what was it.
Answer: A table of ice.
Question: Headless, Legless, heedless came to my door and told me to keep my hens at home that she did not matter my dogs
Answer: A worm
What two men died before their mother was born
Answer: Cain and Able sons of Adam and Eve their mother was never born, she was created.
- Collector
- Margaret Dennin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Tonagh, Co. Cavan
