School: Cnoc an Choillín, Cootehall
- Location:
- Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhártain
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- (continued from previous page)49 What is it that keeps increasing as you give it away?
Happiness.
50 It is neither inside or outside but it is under the roof of a house?
The jamb of a door.
51 I went to the wood to cut trees, they sat me down to saw them, against my will I got them and at last it's home I brought them?
A thorn in a man's foot.
52 Old Jenny age sitting in her cage and all her children died with age?
The haws of a white thorn bush.
53 Hairy in and hairy out hairy into Mollie's mouth?
A stocking.
54 Why is hot bread like a caterpillar?
Because it's the grub that makes the butter fly.(continues on next page)
