School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 228
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- Out of a roomful you could not take a spoonful
Smoke
How may sacks would hold all the potatoes in the world?
One if it was big enough.
Brothers and sisters I have none. But the man's fathers son. Who is he?
Himself.
What is like one half of the moon.
The other
What animal is like a dog.
A pup.
Flies high flies low wears boots and has none.
A football.
Why does a watchdog follow his tail around?
To wind himself up.
At a gentle breeze I quiver yet the heaviest bird I bear. What am I.
A Canal.
What is it that is inside and outside and it is neither inside nor outside?
A window.
Why does a donkey eat thistles?
Because he is an ass.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Conroy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
