School: Ferbane (B.)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 147
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- Headed like a thimble;
A tail like a rat;
You may guess for ever;
But you will never guess that.
A pipe.
As round as a bottle;
As deep as a cup;
And all the king's horses,
Would not pull it up.
A well.
As round as a bottle;
As plump as a ball;
It climbs over churches,
Over steeple and all.
The sun.
It is inside and outside, still it is neither inside nor outside.
A window.
- Collector
- John Brazil
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrica More, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Tom Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrica More, Co. Offaly
