School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 029
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- Little thing, little thing, less than a mouse, has more windows than the king's house. Ans., A thimble
Head like a thimble, and a tail like a rat, you may think for ever but you will not think of that. Ans., A pipe
Little Jack Dandy with the red nose, the longer he stands the shorter he grows. Ans., A candle.
The hopper of ditches, the leaper of thorns, the little brown cow with her two leather horns. Ans., A hare.
As round as a marble as deep as a cup and all the king's army could not take it up. Ans., A well.
What goes up a ladder with its head down? Ans., A nail in a shoe.
A steel horse with a flaxen tail going over a calico bridge. Ans., A needle and thread.
I went up the boreen, and down the boreen, and I carried the boreen on my back. Ans., A ladder.
Ink, ank, under bank, ten drawing four. Ans., A person milking a cow.
- Collector
- Patrick Hodnett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cooragurteen, Co. Cork
