School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0177, Page 017
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- 1. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball
Can climb the Church, over steeple and all (The Sun)
2. Middy-noddy round body
Three feet and a wooden hat (A Pot)
3. Patch upon patch, without any stitches
Riddle me that, and I'll buy you a pair of breeches (A Cabbage)
4. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood - The bark of a tree
5. One half dead, the other half living and a tail wagging - A dog with his head in a pot
6. Headed like a thimble
Tailed like a rat
You may guess for ever
But you couldn't guess that - A pipe
- Collector
- Rosie King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doorly, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Patrick King
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Doorly, Co. Sligo
- 1. Its too short, cut a bit off and it will be long enough - A grave
2. Little Nellie Purl sitting in a hurl with her green dress and white petticoat - A Rush(continues on next page)
