School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Béal Átha hÉis, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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- (continued from previous page)Answer: A blackberry
Question: What goes up when the rain comes down
Answer: An umbrella
Question: As I went through a guttery gap I met my auntie Ann, she had two crooked toes and an iron nose and upon my honour she'd scare the crows.
Answer: A gun
Question: As I sat in my chamber I dropped a wonderful ting. I saw the dead burying the living wasn't that a wonderful thing.
Answer: The dead ashes burying the alive coals.
Question: What weight is the moon
Answer: One cwt because there are four quarters in it.
Question: What has two feet and one heel
Answer: A last
Question: Look into me and I'm everybody scratch my back and I'm nobody
Answer: A looking glass - Question. In ran the toto out ran the toto the king of four feet came and stole away(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosaleen Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Edward Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. an Chabháin