School: Durrus, Bantry (roll number 13023)
- Location:
- Durrus, Co. Cork
- Teacher: L. Blennerhassett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0285, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes. A tongs.What goes up and down a hill the same way? The hands of a clock.What is the shyest thing is the world? A clock, because it always keeps its hands on its face.As round as a marble, as deep as a cup and all the sea water could not fill it up? A strainer.Two legs sitting on three legs, looking at one leg, in comes four legs and snatches up one leg. Up gets two legs and snatches up three legs, throws it at four legs and brings back one leg? A ma sitting on a three legged stool, looking at a leg of mutten, in comes a dog and takes the leg of mutten. Up gets the man, throws the stool at the dog and brings back the leg of mitten.As black as ink as white as milk and it hops on the ground like hailstone?
A magpie.Little thing, little think less than a mouse and it has more windows than any King's house? A thimble.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susannah Jane Pyburn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Pyburn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
