School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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- (continued from previous page)Answer. A bottle of whiskey.
No,10 What goes from house to house and lies outside at night.
Answer. A path
No. 11 As I sat on my hunkers and looked through my winkers. I saw the dead burying the live?
A person covering the a fire with ashes. - 1 If a child is advising old people how to do things.
Teach your mammy how to milk the ducks.
2 If children are close by and we don't want a thing repeated - Little pots have big ears.
3 If a child says the bread is not well baked - Raw sods make fat lads.