School: Tobar Colmáin, Ráthluirc (roll number 8930)
- Location:
- Saint Colman's Well, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bean Uí Aoláin
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- (continued from previous page)Why does a son not take after his father? When he leaves him nothing to take.I live in my own substance and die when I have devoured myself? A candle.As deep as a cup as round as an apple and all the King's horses couldn't pull it up? A well.There was a little girl below in the field and if you shook her hand her nose would bleed. A pump.As white as milk as black as ink and hops on the road like a hailstone? A magpie.As I was going out a slippery gap I met my Uncle Davy, I cut off his head and left his body easy. A head of cabbage.It goes with the car, it comes with the car, 'tis no good to the car and the car won't go without it? Noise.A big black body and a big flat hat? A pot.
