School: Baile i Meadhon Locha (roll number 344)
- Location:
- Bellanaman, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Nic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 083
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As round as an apple as plump as a ball, can climb the Church over steeple and all (Sun)
What is it always walks with it head down (nail in shoe)
What goes away between two woods + returns between two waters. (man with pails of water)
What goes away above the ground and returns under it. (man with sods)
Middy, Noddy, round body, three feet and a wooden-pat. (a pot)
What's full, and still holds more. (a pot of potatoes)
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you couldnt guess that: A pipe.
Patch upon patch and never a stitch. (a cabbage)
What goes round and round the wood and never gets into it. (The bark of a tree).
What has a bark and yet cannot bark. (A tree)
What has one eye and yet cannot see. (A Needle)(continues on next page)
