School: Sraith, Magh Sheasta
- Location:
- Sragh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Gormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 052
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- What is the difference between an aeroplane and a tree? One sheds its leaves and the other leaves its shed.
It went to America and stopped there and came home because it never went there?
A watch.
What goes round the wood and nver gets into the wood? The bark of a tree.
Over the water and under the wat and never tips the water. A woman bringing a pail of water on the tops of her head.
If a farmer raises twenty acres of wheat in dry weather what will he raise in wet weather? An umbrella.
As round as a marble,
As plump as a ball,
Can climb the church,
Over steeple and all? The Sun.
Patch upon patch without any stitches,
Riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches; a head of cabbage.
Niddy Noddy, round body,
Three feet and a wooden hat. What's that?
A pot.
One half dead and another half living and its tail wagging? A dog with his head in a pot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Proinnsias Ó Síothcháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sragh, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Séamus Ó Síothcháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Sragh, Co. Clare
