School: Machaire Áirne
- Location:
- Magherarny, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0945, Page 171
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- (continued from previous page)Six feet three is my degree, no house looks well without me, spell me backwards, you will find me forty perches exactly,
A. Door
Q. A leaper of ditches,a cow with a leather pair of horns.
A. A hare
Q. Two long legs, two crooked thighs a round head and no eyes.
A A pair of tongs
Q. A lord and a lady rolled up in a clout, the let a volley and the lady shot out.
A. A Gun
Q. A house-full and you could not catch a cup-full.
A. Smoke
Q. In the meadow and cannot be cut and in the shop and cannot be sold.
A. The Sun
Q. In the meadow of tethered the goat with the head of him down and the tail of him up.
A. An Onion
Q. What was when Adam was a boy, is yet and never was five five weeks old?
A. The Moon
Q. What goes from Dublin to cork without(continues on next page)
