School: Glenderry (roll number 10403)
- Location:
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Gleathbhúir
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I sought it, I found it. It was easily met; Yet God never got it or never will get? A superior.
Prove that a cat has ten tails: A Cat has a tails more than no cat; No cat has nine tails. So that a cat has ten tails. If a boy is ten years now what will he be in a hundred years? Dust!
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat; you may guess for ever, but you will never guess that? A pipe
- Collector
- Thomas Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Gaynor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
