School: Threemilehouse (roll number 342)
- Location:
- Three Mile House, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: I. Mc Eneaney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 275
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- Question As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb over church over steeple and all?
Answer The sun.Question What walks with its head down
Answer A nail in your boot?Question What goes away between two woods and comes home between two waters?
Answer. A man carrying water in pails.Question What goes away above the ground and returns under it?
Answer. A man with sods on his head.Question Whats full and holds more?
Answer. If a pot was full of potatoes you could pour water on them.Question. What goes round the wood and never goes into the wood?
Answer. The bark of a tree.(continues on next page)
