School: Tang (roll number 8037)
- Location:
- Tang, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Caisil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 496
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- What is it that can run,but can not walk,it whistles and cant talk.
A. A Train.
A big working father a real lazey mother,
Twelve little children all like one another.
A. A clock.
How is it that you go to bed?
A. Because the bed will not come to you.
As I was going out a gap,I met a wee boy
With a little red cap and a stone in his belly,
A stitch in his bottom,riddle me that and I will give you a penny.
A. A cherry.
What bed is soft,well covered and nicely made yet it is not ment to be slept in.
A. A flowerbed
What two trees remind us most of the seaside.
A. The Bay,and the Beech.
Old mother Twetchett has but one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Beattie
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Clonkeen, Co. Westmeath
