School: Caimthír (Camphire), Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15129)
- Location:
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Nóra Bean Uí Chradóig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 306
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- (continued from previous page)A nail in your boot.
What is full and hold more?
A pot full of potatoes and you can put water into it.
Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
A cake in the oven.
Under the water and over the water and never touches the water?
A woman going over a bridge with a pail of water on her head.
headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever bu never guess that?
A pipe.
A house full and a room full and you could not get a spoonful?
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, it climbs over church, the steeple and all?
The sun.
Throw an egg to the wall and it won't break or fall?
The wall.
- He who marries many wives
Still is single all his life?
A priest.
Brothers and sisters I have none, but(continues on next page)
