School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 033
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- (continued from previous page)Q What goes away between two woods and comes home between two waters
A A ma fetching waters in pails.
Q What goes away above the ground, and returns under it
A A man with sods on his head
Q Middy - noddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat
A A pot
Q What's full and holds more
A A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in
Q One half dead; the other half living and a tail wagging
A A dog with its head in a pot
Q Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you make guess forever but you couldn't guess that
A A pipe
Q Patch upon patch, without any stitches. Riddle me that and I'll buy a pair of breeches
A A cabbage
Q What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood
A The bark of the tree
- Collector
- Francis Kelly
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Baile Daighean, Co. Ros Comáin
