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School: Fahan Lower (roll number 14506)

Location:
Fathain Íochtarach, Co. Dhún na nGall
Teacher:
R. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 517

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    What goes round the house, and round the house, and trails a harrow after it?
    Answer: A hen, and a clutch of chickens.
    What always walks with its head down?
    Answer: A nail in your shoe.
    Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, your may guess for sure, but you cannot guess that?
    Answer: A pipe.
    Patch upon patch, without any stitches, Riddle with that, and I will buy you a pair of britches?
    Answer: A cabbage.
    What grows shorter?
    Answer: A candle
    What has an eye but cannot see?
    Answer: A needle
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
        1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lillie Eakin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    An Lodán, Co. Dhún na nGall