School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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“A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat.”
(continued from previous page)What is it that walks with its head downwards?
A nail in a man's shoe.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan; one side a woman and the other a man?
A penny.(no title)
“A man without eyes saw apples on a tree.”
A man without eyes saw apples on a tree. He took no apples and left no apples how can that be? A man with one eye saw two apples on a tree. He took one and left one after him.
A lovely, lovely ornament, and when it is bought it's never lent. The who buy it will not use it and those whom it's bought for can't refuse it? A coffin.
Long legs, short thighs a little head and no eyes?
A tongs.
A beautiful maid in the garden was laid. She was as fair as a rose in the morning. It was the first time in life she became a wife and she died before she was born? Eve.
As I went over a double stone wall, I met my uncle Thady. I cut off his head and left his body easy?
A head of cabbage.
Twenty sick sheep went out a gap. One died; how many came back? Nineteen.
Twenty sheep went out a gap. Forty more followed them. Six an seven. Twice eleven. Three and two. How many is that? Five.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nellie Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Coleman
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Ballyargadaun, Co. Galway