School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)
- Location:
- Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mrs Anna Ewing
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- 1. What is deeper than the sea?
A tailor's thimble.
2. What goes up when the rain comes down? An umbrella.
3. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple + all. The sun.
4. Blackie and Whitie went over the hill. Blackie came back but Whitie stayed still. An egg.
5. Long, long ago, yet made for today, employed while others sleep ; what no man likes to give away and no man likes to keep. A coffin.
6. Long legs, crooked thighs, wee head + no eyes. A tongs.
7. Olive Hudson.- Collector
- Olive Hudson
- Gender
- Female