School: Mc Kelvey's Grove (roll number 9130)
- Location:
- Loch Bratóige, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Eva Campbell
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- (continued from previous page)there are more windows in it than there is in the king's house?
A thimble.
As I went through yon field of wheat I picked up something good to eat, it was neither fish, flesh bone nor meat and I kept it until it was able to walk itself.
An egg.
Black and white and red all over?
A newspaper.
Black am I and much admired men, and horses, I have tired, gold and silver I have cost and in the dunghill I am tossed?
Turf.
What is it goes up the chimney down and won't come down the chimney up?
An umbrella.
What goes from house to house and yet never moves?
The road.
Round and round the hairy hole, in goes stumpy's.
Putting on your stocking.
Spell black water in three letters?
Ink.
Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell that without a k?
T-h-a-t- Collector
- Elizabeth Ross
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Dúcharn, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Informant
- Mina Dickson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loch Bratóige, Co. Mhuineacháin