School: Templeglantine (B.) (roll number 2359)
- Location:
- Templeglentan, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Maitiú Ó Duilleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0492, Page 073
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- (continued from previous page)A head like a thimble tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that.
A pipe
Middy-noody round the body, three feet and a wooden hat.
A pot
As round as an apple, as plump a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all.
The Sun
Why is a pulled out tooth like a thing forgotten?
Because it is out of the head.
If a farmer raises a dozen acres of wheat in dry weather what will he raise in wet weather?
His umbrella
What goes away above ground and return's under it?
A man with sods on his head.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séumus Ó Laodhcha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick
