School: Sidhean (roll number 6501)
- Location:
- Shane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Mac Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)I ran till I got it I sat down to look for it. I could not get it, I up and away with it?
a thorn.
Two arms two tails a neck and no head?
a shirt.
A house full, a room full and you could not catch a spoonful? Smoke.
Why does a hen pick a pot? Because she cant lick it.
What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
The bark of a tree.
What goes away between two woods and comes home between two waters?
A man carrying water from the well.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the kings horses could not pull it up?
A well.
I have a wee red cow she eats all I give her but drinks none at all? A fire.
Black and white went up the hill, black came down and white stayed up?
A black hen laying an egg.
I washed myself in water that never was rain nor ran I dried myself in a towel that never was made nor spun? The dew and(continues on next page)
