School: Snaidhm (C.) (roll number 11799)
- Location:
- Sneem, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mrs Palmer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0468, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)man who wore it never saw it — (A Coffin)
Humpty, Dumpty, sat in the wall
Humpty, Dumpty got a great fall all
the King's army and King's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again — (An egg)
Four legs up and four legs down soft in the middle and hard all around — (Two beds)
As black as ink as white as snow hopping in the road like hailstone — (A Magpie)
A number of white cows and one red one between them — (A set of teeth and a tongue)
Four sticks standing, four lillilanders[?] two loopers, two crookers and one twist about —
(A cow)
Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I'll you a pair of breeches
(A head of cabbage)
There is a little man sitting near the wall and he would eat all he'd get and drink nothing at all — (A fire)
It goes up it goes down and goes into every corner in the house — (A Brush)
What walks with its head down — (A stud)
What is it that gets wet while drying —
(A towel)
A head like a thimble a tail like a rat you can guess everything but you cannot(continues on next page)
