School: Crowenstown
- Location:
- Baile Croín Beag, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: M. Ní Bhriain
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- (continued from previous page)fifty men can't close again? A nut.Why is a fox in a hen roost like a house on fire? The sooner its put out the better. Why is a pistol like working hard at school? You are sure to get a good report. What is good to eat, is neither flesh, fish, meat or bone, yet in twenty four hours it will walk alone? An egg.How do you get down off a ladder? You don't, you get down off a duck?Niddy, Noddy, round body, three feet and a wooden head? a pot.What walks with its head downwards? A nail in your boot.
- Round the wood round an round the wood and never gets into the wood?The bark of a tree.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Dealbhna, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- John Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Dealbhna, Co. na hIarmhí