School: Mc Kelvey's Grove (roll number 9130)

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   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

   

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   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Elizabeth Ross

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   14

   Address

   Dúcharn, Co. Mhuineacháin

   Informant

   Mina Dickson

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Loch Bratóige, Co. Mhuineacháin