School: Carlingford (B.)
- Location:
- Cairlinn, Co. Lú
- Teacher: C. Ó Blunaigh
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- (Contributed by H. Adamson. Bar View Carlingford)1. What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound?
Answer - a fiddle.2. Says the child to its father, how does it come that you are my father, and I'm not your son?
Answer - The child was a girl.3. Long legs, crooked thighs, wee head, and no eyes.
Answer - a pair of tongs.4. As I went through a guttery gap, I met my Uncle Davy.
I knocked him down, and sucked his blood, and left his body easy.
Answer - a haw.(N.B. Other pupils who have this middle give the answer as either a bottle of wine, or a bottle of whiskey).5. What goes up the chimney down, but cannot come down the chimney up?
Answer - an umbrella.6. Black and white and read all over.
Answer - a newspaper.- Informant
- H. Adamson
- Address
- Cairlinn, Co. Lú