School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 299
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- (continued from previous page)Ans:- On the outside.
14. What opens like a door, shuts like a trap, you may guess many a thing but you wont guess that.
Ans = An umbrella.
15 What has two eyes and cant see.
Ans = A pair of scissors.
16. Black I am and much admired,
Men and horses I am tired,
Tired of horse and worried of man
Tell me that ridde if you can.
Ans = Turf.
17. In yonder meadow there is a table,
And in the table there is a drawer,
And in the drawer there is a cup,
And in the cup there is a sup that every man must taste.
Ans = death.
18. What part of a cow goes into the byre first.
Ans = Her breath.
19 What's that which is yours and everyone uses it more.
Ans = your name.
- Collector
- Anna Philomena Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
