School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 185
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- (continued from previous page)10.How many potatoes would make a bruisey? As many as you have butter for.
11. Long and wide and two green selveges on each side? Road.
12. What is full and holds more? A pot of potatoes.
13. What is it that when you will take from it, and it will get big? Hole.
14. Why does a horse go over the road? Because he cannot go under it.
15. What has eyes and cannot see? Potato.
16. Mother loves me and round the board shoves me with a smile of good luck on her brow? Teapot.
17. Black and white and red all over? Newspaper.
18. Long man legless, came to the door headless, fair maid keep in your hens. I am not afraid of your hounds? Worm.
19. What goes up the ladder with its head down? A nail in a man's shoe.
20. What goes round the house and round the house and leaves a loaf in ever window? Snow.
21. What goes round the house and round the house and drags its pudding after it? A hen and a flock of chickens.(continues on next page)
