School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 172
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- (continued from previous page)The one with the biggest head.
8. Headed like a timble, tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you will never guess that
A pipe
9. What goes up the ladder with its head down
A nail in a man's boot
10. As I went up a hill I met my Uncle Sam, he had iron nose and wooden toes as upon my word he would frighten the crows
A gun
11. Two underneath, three overhead, the head of the living in the mouth of the dead
A pot on a man's head
12. What is that is too short, and when you take a bit off it's long enough(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tom Mc Manus
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrynadooey, Co. Roscommon
