School: Dromcollchoille (B.)
- Location:
- Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Mathghamhna
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- As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, a half a woman, and a full man?
A penny.
As round as a marble, as deep as a cup, all the men in town, couldn't take it up?
A well.
Though black I am, I am well admired, men and horses, I have tired, gold and silver, I have made, here on the dung-heap, I am laid? Coal.
As I went up to Saint Ives, I met seven tinkers, who had seven wives, each wife had a cat, each cat had a kitten, how many went up to Saint Ives? One.
Its in, its out, its like a trout, its slipper, wet, and greasy? My tongue.
What is always walking with their heads downwards? The nails of your boots.
Its as green as grass, and grass it isn't,(continues on next page)
