School: Empor (roll number 941)
- Location:
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
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- (continued from previous page)pleasures of some, and perhaps I am useful to you.
Ans. A needle.
7. As round as an apple as flat as a pan the head of a woman the whole of a man.
Ans. An English penny.
8. Round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night.
Ans. The broom.
9. A man went out to sow his seed the seed was black the ground was white riddle me that and I'll give you a pipe.
Ans. A man writing.
10. What part of a cow goes out in a gap first.
Ans. Her breath.
11. I have a little house and it wouldn't hold a mouse and it has as many windows as the lord mares house.
Ans. A timble.
12. A head like a timble a tail like a rat if your were guessing forever you wouldn't guess that.
Ans. A pipe.
13. Long legs, short ties, little head and no eyes.
Ans. A tongs.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Glynn
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Owen Glynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Halion
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
