School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- An Robhar, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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- (continued from previous page)two dummies were telling them to hurry on.
A lie.3. What small animal is turned into a large one by being beheaded.
Fox (ox)4. What fish does the bridegroom like best.
Herring (her ring.)5. What burns to keep a secret?
Sealing-wax.6. Why is a room full of married people like an empty room?
7. There's not a single person in it.8. What poet was never slow?
Swift.9. What is the most modest piece of furniture?
The clock, because it covers its face with its hands, and runs down its own works.10. Your initial begins with an "A". You have an "A" at the end of your name. The whole of your name is "Anna" and it is forwards and backwards the same. What is the name?
Anna.11. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
A bed12. I have a grey goose. She has a great prize. The man that will buy her; he must be wise. She has feet in her body and she walks upon none. She goes far from her lodging and seldom comes home.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Galavan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Chonaíle, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mrs Galavan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Cill Chonaíle, Co. Chill Chainnigh