School: Tír na Néill (roll number 3845)
- Location:
- Tirnaneill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Mc Cague
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 074
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- (continued from previous page)As round as an apple as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all.
The sun.
What is it that always walks with it's head down.
A nail in a boot.
What goes away between two woods and comes back between two waters.
A man carrying pails of water.
If you fell from Milltown chimney what would you fall against. Your will.
What goes away above the ground and returns under it. A man with sods on his head.
Middy Noddy round body, three feet and a wooden hat. A pot.
What is full and holds more.
A pot full of potatoes.
One half dead, the other half living and a tail wagging.
A dog with his head in a pot.
What has hands and no fingers.
A clock.
Why is the letter T like an island.
Because it is in the middle of water.
Why is the letter k like a tail.
Because it is at the end of pork.
What is made of wood, sounds in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Crozier Moffett
- Gender
- Male
