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School: St. Michael's Clooncunny (roll number 14589)

Location:
Clooncunny, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Úna, Bean Uí Stondúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 180

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    As round as an apple, as plump as a ball. I can climb the church, over steeple and all.
    The sun.
    What can go without feet?
    The clock.
    What always walks with its head down?
    A nail in your shoe.
    Patch upon patch without any stitches,
    riddle me that and you'll get a new breeches.
    A cabbage.
    What goes round the wood, and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
    The bark of the tree.
    What's full yet holds more?
    A pot full of cabbage when you pour water in.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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