School: Gort na Carraige (Rockfield) (roll number 9009)
- Location:
- Knocknashangan, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)A To get to the other side
Q Why does a cow look over a fence.
A Because she cannot look under it
Q What key loses the tongue
A Whiskey
Q a hard working father, a lazy little mother, twelve little children all the same colour. What is that? A clock
Q Where was Moses when the light went out
A In the dark.
Q What goes from house to house.
A A path.
Q What has longs legs, short thighs, wee head and no eyes.
A Tongs.
Q What is as round as an apple, as plump as a pear, one side hen and the other side harp.
A A penny
Q What goes to Dublin yet never moves
A The road
Q What is neither inside nor outside the house and is useful to the house
A A window
Q How is a shy girl like a ship coming into harbor?
A Because she keeps clear of the buoys (boys)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Keegan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Templenew, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Pat Mulhern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 68
- Address
- Templenew, Co. Dhún na nGall
