School: Teampoll Tuaithe, Teampoll Mór (B.) (roll number 16250)
- Location:
- Templetouhy, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Meadhra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0546, Page 102
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- (continued from previous page)tailed like a rat,
You can guess for ever
But you couldn't guess that.
A. A pipe.
- What goes round the world and yet always stays in the one corner.
A stamp on a letter.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other a man.
A penny.
If a man had sixty patches in his trousers what time would it be?
Time to get a new one.
What can go through any country without walking?
Roads.
What always walks upon its head?
The nails of your boot.
Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I'll spare your britches?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Thomas Bergin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Timothy Bergin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Templetouhy, Co. Tipperary
