School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)
- Location:
- Knocknamanagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dáithí de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0321, Page 081
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- (continued from previous page)5 Father and mother, sister and brother
Running all day and can't catch one another
4 wheels of a carriage6 I have four brothers thin and tall.
One employment does them all
One goes in and one goes out
And the other round and all about.
4 knitting needles7 Hector Protector was dressed up in green.
Hector Protector was sent to the queen.
The queen did not like him nor neither the King,
So Hector Protector was sent back again.
A head of cabbage8 Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four
10 fingers milking a cow9 Patch upon patch without any stitches
Riddle me that and I'll buy you a breeches
a head of cabbage10 Head like a thimble, a tail like a rat
You may guess forever but you can't guess that
a pipe 11 Middy mauddy round body, three feet and a wooden hat. Ans. a three legged pot12 As round as an apple as plump as a ball
Can climb the church over steeple and all
The sun(continues on next page)
