School: Na Cloichíní, Carraig Ruacháin (roll number 12676)
- Location:
- Clogheen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Coisdealbha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0349, Page 257
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- I have four legs yet cannot walk,
I have a head yet cannot talk,
I am something slim, and something wide, and very warm inside.
A bed.
What is the cleanest article in the house, it has two hands and it never washes its face.
A clock.
Middy moddy, round body three feet and a wooden hat.
A pot.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that.
A pipe.
What goes away above the ground and returns under the ground.
A man with sods on his head.
What goes around the wood and around the wood and never gets into the wood.
The bark of the tree.
What is it that man loves more than life, hates more than death or mortal strife (the) the misers(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Chrissie Flavin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodside, Co. Cork
