School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 190
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- 1. As round as an apple as flat as a pan, the half of a woman and the whole of a man. A penny?
Around the house, around the house, and sleeps in the wood at night. A tea cloth
It went to America and it stopped in it. It came back to old Ireland and it did not stop at all." A clock
What is it that can run and it has no legs. Water.
Jink, jink never takes a drink? A bit in a horse's mouth?
There is a little round house and it is full of meat. It has no doors nor windows to let me it to eat? An egg.
What is nearer to you than me. The back of your head?
- Informant
- Sheila Fleming
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
