School: Druim Muc (roll number 12861)
- Location:
- Corderrybane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Chuinneagáin
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- As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church, over steeple and all?
The sun.
What is it which always walks with its head down?
A nail in your boot.
What goes away between two woods and comes home between two waters?
A man fetching water in pails.
What goes away above the ground, and returns under it?
A man with sods on his head.
Middy-noddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat?
A pot.
What's full and holds more?
A pot of potatoes when you pour water in.
One half dead; the other(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Carraghar
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corderryduff, Co. Monaghan
