School: Brannockstown (roll number 16817)
- Location:
- Brannockstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776, Page 479
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- Little thing little thing less than a mouse has more windows than the Kings house. (Ans. a thimble.)
Round as an apple and deeper than a cup and all the King horses could not draw it up. (Ans A Well.)
Long legs, crooked thighs,
small head, and no eyes.
(Ans A Tongs.)
Black, and white and read all over (Ans A newspaper)
What is it a rich man wants a poor man has a deaf man hears a blind man sees. (Ans. Nothing.)
- When is a person somewhere else than where he is. ( Ans When he is beside himself.
What can you knit(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nora Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brannockstown, Co. Kildare
