School: Crannach, Inis
- Location:
- Cranny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Maolchaoin
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- (continued from previous page)Q. How can you irritate a farmer most.
A. By treading in his corn.
Q. What trees are the same after being burnt as before
A. Ashes
Q. What coat is finished without buttons and put on wet.
A. A coat of paint.
Q. There were six men under an umbrella and none of them got wet. Why.
A. Because it was not raining.
Q. As I went into a field of wheat, I picked up something good to eat.
It was neither fish, flesh or bone,
But yet I kept it until it walked alone,
A. An egg
Q Although I have neither legs nor feet,
I am only useful when I go,
I have no tongue but yet I tell,
What many hundreds want to know.
A. A watch.
- Collector
- Maureen Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh West, Co. Clare
