School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 239
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- 4. A head like a thimble a tail like a rat you could guess for a week but you would never guess that?
A pipe
5 What key is the hardest to turn?
A donkey.
6 What wears shoes and has none?
A football.
7 What turns without moving?
The road.
8 Two legs sitting on three legs, looking at one leg, in comes four legs, snatches up one leg, jumps up two legs, snatches up three legs, flings at four legs and gets one leg back again?
A butcher sitting on a stool looking at a leg of mutton, in comes the dog and takes the mutton, up jumps the butcher and flings the stool at the dog and gets back the mutton again.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Ennis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- (continued from previous page)1. What turns without moving.?
Milk.
2. What ship do we all like to avoid.?
Hardship.
3. Around the wood and around the wood and never gets into the wood.
