School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)
- Location:
- Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Kathleen Grehan
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- (continued from previous page)A tongs.
Long legged father big bellied mother and three dirty little children.
A pot.
Which is man or woman the heavier
A woman because she always has ladders in her stockings.
Which is cream or milk the heavier.
Milk is the heavier because the cream comes to the top.
What goes about with its head down.
A nail in a shoe or boot.
What goes around the house and drags its harrow after it.
A hen and a clutch of chickens.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you cannot guess that.
A pipe.
- Collector
- Rita Carey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stoneford Bridge, Co. Westmeath
