School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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- (continued from previous page)won't go down it up? An umbrella.What is it always walks with its head down. A nail in your boot.What goes away above the ground and returns under it. A man with sods on his head.What is it has four legs and cannot run. A chair.What does round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood. The bark of the tree.As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all. The sun.
- Long leg, short thighs, little head and no eyes. A tongs.As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other a man. A penny.Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you'll(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seosamh Mac Seanlaoich
- Gender
- Male
