School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0030
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“A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat.”
A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat. You may guess for ever, but you would not guess that? Answer: A pipe.
I have a little house and a mouse would not fit in it, and all the men in town would not count all the windows in it? A thimble.
Riddle me, riddle me, the farmer's fiddle; alive in both ends and dead in the middle? A man ploughing.
Around the wood and around the wood but never gets into the wood? The bark of a tree.
I went up the hill and down the hill and carried the hill on my shoulder? A ladder.
I went to the wood and got it. I sat down to poke for it and I brought it home because I could not find it? A thorn in my foot.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry would not pull it up? A spring well.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty got a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men would not put Humpty Dumpty together again? an egg(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Fahy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Galway