School: Faltia
- Location:
- Fáilte, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Thomas Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 184
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- (continued from previous page)wet.
10 Ink ank under the bank ten drawing four.
A person milking a cow.
11 As white as milk as black as ink hopping on the road like hail stones.
A magpie.
12. What goes from Dublin to Galway without moving.
A railway line.
13 What is always eating, and never full.
A chimney.
14 It goes in dry, and comes out wet the longer its left the stronger it gets.
Tea drawing.
15 Little thing little thing as small as a mouse it has more windows than a king's big house.
A thimble.
16 Under a fire and over a fire and never tutches the fire.
A cake in an oven.
17 How many cows tails would reach the sky.
One if it was long enough.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fáilte, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mrs Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Fáilte, Co. Ros Comáin
