School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 211
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- (continued from previous page)(b) Too wise you are, too wise you be, and double too wise you are for me.
21. As round as an apple as flat as a pan, half of a woman and the whole of a man.
A penny.
22. How is it that summer goes so easily?
Because there is often an evening mist (missed)
23. How long did Cain hate his brother?
As long as he was Abel.24. Why is an umbrella like a pancake?
Because it is seldom seen after Lent.
25. What letter is seen all over the world?
C's (seas)
26. Little white Nancy has a red nose, the longer she lives the less she grows.
A candle.
27. Long legged father, big belly mother, and three little children standing together.
A pot hangers on a three legged pot.
28. Long legs crooked thighs little head no eyes.
A tongs.
29. Ink ank under the bank ten drawing four.
A woman milking a cow.30. Riddle me riddle me randio, my father gave me some seed to sow, the seed was black the ground was white, riddle me that to-morrow night?
Writing with ink on white(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Nora Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
