School: Áth na Coille
- Location:
- Annaghkilly, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0945, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)What is the smallest bridge in the world.
Answer the bridge of your nose.What goes up the chimney down and down the chimney up.
Answer an umbrella.What goes up the chimney and never touches it.
Answer the smoke.What is full but holds more.
Answer a pot of potatoesUp upon titty mouse down upon titty mouse, all the maids in the house play on titty mouse.
Answer the latch of the door.My mistess sent me to yours, for the whitic, the whatic, the high boy, the hoboy, the little trahatic, that my master sits upon.
Answer a saddle.What is it that flies high, flies low, has no feet and wears shoes.
the dust.A long thing headless comes to the door footless saying "Keep in your ducks. I don't mind your dog." A worm.There are two stones on yonder stile, the less they get the quieter they are, and the more they get the noisier they are.
Two mill stones.The big long father, the big stout mother and three children, not one a bit bigger than the other.
The crook, the pot and the pot's three feet.
- Informant
- Edward Mc Cormick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tanderagee, Co. Monaghan
