School: Termon
- Location:
- Termon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Cooney
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- (continued from previous page)in we shall have good luck. But this must happen before the sun sets.
- Mary Smith Derryham
Born on the 29th June 1855
1. What's full but still holds more
Ans. a pot of potatoes when you pour water in.
2. a houseful a roomful you couldn't catch a spoonful (smoke)
3. A leaper of fences a crapper of thorns a Bonnie brown Cow with a leather pair of horns. (A hare)
4. How many peas (p) in a pint.
(one p)
5. What goes up the stairs and its head down ( A stud in your shoe)
6. Enough for one too much for two nothing for three takes one to make and two to keep ? - A secret.
7. What's black and white and red (read) all over? - The newspaper.
8. In what month do babies talk.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mary Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
