School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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- (continued from previous page)the house.
The clock, because it keeps its hands on its face always.
- As I went out in the garden I met my uncle Tady, I cut of his head and left his body easy?
Cutting a head of cabbage.
As I went out in the gap Paudeen bit me?
A thorn.
Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle and hard all round?
A bed.
Little things, little things, smaller than a mouse, has more windows than a gentlemans house?
A thimble.
I went to the wood and got it, but I brought it home, because I could not find it?
A thorn.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Thomas Clogher
- Gender
- Male
