School: Moher
- Location:
- An Mothar, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: J. Wilson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0969, Page 172
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- 1. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball,
Can climb the church, over steeple and all.
Answer. The sun.
2. What's cut in the wood and sounds in the town,
And it earns its master many a pound.?
Answer. A fiddle.
3. Black I am as much admired,
Men fought for me till they were tierd,
They kicked my nose and broke my face,
And brought my to my dwelling place,
Answer. A turf.
4. What goes away between twp woods
And comes home between two waters?
Answer. A man fetching water in pails.
5. A half penny wet, and half penny dry,
Five pence half penny, and a half penny by.
Four pence half penny, and half penny more?
Answer. A shilling.
- Collector
- Owen Corrigan
- Gender
- Male
