School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)
- Location:
- Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Susan Mary Irwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 375
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- (continued from previous page)8. Middy noddy, round body, Three feet and a wooden hat?
- Pot
9. What is full and holds more?
-A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
10. What goes round the wood, and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
-The bark of the tree.
11. One half dead; the other half living [sic] and a tail wagging?
-Dog with its head in the pot.
12. Long black arm with a half closed fist?
-Crook
13. Why does the cow look over the wall?
-Because she can’t look through it.
14. What goes up the chimney down and can’t come down the chimney up?
-Umbrella [sic](continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Mary Irwin
- Gender
- Female
