School: Crummy (roll number 12691)
- Location:
- Crummy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Rodacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 341
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- (continued from previous page)34212 What always stands on one leg, and has its heart in its Head? A head of Cabbage.
13. A gray goose, and a white goose which of them is the Gander? None of them.
14. Patch upon patch without any stiches, riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches.
A head of Cabbage.
15. I have a little Sister, she sits on the wall, she drinks all she gets and eats none atall? A lamp.
16. Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes? A thongs.
17. What goes round the wood, and never gets into the wood? the bark of a tree.
18. A man had three quarters of an apple left, How would you know what time was it?
A quarter to eight.
19. I seen a man crossing a bridge with twenty patches on his trouser. How would you know what time it was/ Time he would get a new pair.
Headed like a timble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever, but you wouldnt guess that? A pipe.May McGovern, Rantogue
- Collector
- May Mc Govern
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rantoge Glebe, Co. Leitrim
