School: Mulrankin
- Location:
- Maol Rancáin, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)What goes up when the rain comes down?
An Umbrella.What is the cheapest way of having supper?
Bolt the door.As I looked out through a window I dropped a thing I never could catch,
My Breath.Why is a policeman like a rainbow?
Because he appears when the storm is up.As I walked in as I walked out, I saw the dead the life was in one flew six ran, tell me that and I'll be hung.
A nest in a horses skull bone.What walks along although it has only one foot?
A Stocking.- Collector
- May Mc Grath
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Maol Rancáin, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Willie Kendrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50