School: Drakestown, Ardee (roll number 1554)
- Location:
- Drakestown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Michael Ó Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 308
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A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat
you may guess for ever, but you'll never guess that?
(A. pipe)
A kitchenful, a roomful and you couldn't catch a spoonful? (Smoke)
As round as an apple as plump as a ball covers the market hous steeple and all? (The sun)
AS round as an apple as deep as a cup, all the men in the world would not lift it up (a well)
There is a big man in Dundalk, He has three legs and cannot walk. He has a big mouth and cannot talk. He has two ears and cannot hear (a pot)As round as an apply as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other a man? (a penny)What kind of a meal would it be, with a woman's pride boiled and a man's temptation uncooked (a hair and an apple)What's asleep with a finger in its eye all night (a crook)What is the shyest thing in the house (a clock)(continues on next page)
