School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)

Location:
Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 030

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 030

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    (8) Which are the oldest knives and forks? Our fingers and teeth.
    (9) Twenty-four white cattle tied up in a stall, up comes the red fellow and licks over them, all.
    (Teeth and tongue).
    10. When is a glass like an acrobat?
    (When it is a tumbler.)
    11. What is it that goes up and down and yet never moves? (A road)
    12. I went up a little road, I came down a little road and I carried the little road on my back. (A ladder)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English