School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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- (continued from previous page)57. What plays in the town and grows in the wood
A Fiddle.
58. What goes up the ladder with its head down.
A nail in your boot.
59. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup all the king's horses wouldn't pull it up.
A well.
60. When a shoemaker is about to make a boot which is the first thing he uses.
The last.
61. As round as an apple, a plump as a ball, can climb over churches steeple and all.
The sun.
62. Uo the road and down the road and carried the road on my back
A ladder
63. A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat you may guess for ever but you wont guess that.
A pipe.
64. A little thing hanging on the wall, it drinks all it gets and eats none atal
A lamp.
65. It is in it since the beginning of the world and it's no age
The moon
66. Four little sisters like each other one can't(continues on next page)
