School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Michael Quinn
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- (continued from previous page)33. As I went up the steeple I met three christian people. They were neither men, women, nor children. What were they?
Answer - A man, woman and child34. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you can guess for ever, but you won't guess that.
Answer - a pipe35. Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty more followed that six, sever, ten, eleven, two and three. How many is that?
Answer - Five36. A riddle a riddle, a farmers fiddle, alive in the two ends and dead in the middle
Answer - A man ploughing37. What goes round the house and round the house and leaves but the one track?
Answer - a barrow38. A round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all
Answer - The sun39. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and all the men in Derry would not pull it up
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- Collector
- Thomas Scahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bookalagh, Co. Galway
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