School: Coolboyoge
- Location:
- Coolboyoge, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Roddy
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- Q: Down in yonder meadow there's an old mare dead and the drippings of his rump will kitchen your bread? Ans: A Bee
Q: Hairy in and hairy out hairy into hairy mouth? Ans: Putting your leg into a stocking.
Q: Thirty white horses upon a red hill(?) now they tramp and now the champ now they stand still? Ans: Teeth and gums
Q: I sat down on my hunkers and I peeped through my winkers and I saw the dead burying the living
Ans: Raking the fire
Q: What bears but never blossoms?
Ans: The crook
Q: A scrap of wood some lines of wire a little house without a fire?
Ans: A bird's cage
Q: Four stick standers four diddle(continues on next page)- Collector
- May Halliday
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Daggan, Co. Cavan