School: Greaghagarran
- Location:
- Greaghagarran, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B.Nic Fhearghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 285
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- (continued from previous page)26. What's white and black and red (read) all over? The Newspaper.
27. What's full of holes, and holds water? A crook, or a sponge.
28. What's neither within nor without? A window.
29. Upstairs, downstairs, windows made of glass, in my father's parlour there lies a bonny lass, with rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes, touch her in the middle, and off she goes? A gun.
30. What goes from house to house, and leaves a rag on every bush? The snow.
31. Red and yellow, goslin green, the King couldn't touch it, no more than the Queen? A rainbow.
32. What goes round the house, and round the house, and sleeps in the corner at night? The brush.
33. Why do you go to bed? Because the bed would not come to you.
34. What sleeps all night with its finger in its eye? A crook.
35. What goes from door to door, and lies outside all night? A path.
36. What part of a cow goes into the byre first? Her breath.
37. Twenty sheep went through a gap, twenty more went after that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three, and two, how many is that? Five.
38. What goes up the road, and its two ends down? A bag on an ass's back.(continues on next page)
