School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 035
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- 1. What crosses the river and never gets wet?
A Shadow
2.
As round as an apple and deeper than a cup?
A well.3. What grows in the wood, sounds in the town, earns its living and manys a pound?
A fiddle4. Everything has it and so has a needle?
A name.5. The man that made it did not want it. (not use it). The man that bought it did not use. The man that used it never saw it?
A Coffin.6. A long father a short mother and twelve black children?
A clock.7. What is always behind time?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margret Smith
- Gender
- Female
