School: Ballyroddy (roll number 12629)
- Location:
- Ballyroddy, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: -
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to get to the other side.
8 Why does a chicken pick the board?
(Because she cannot lick it)
9 As round as an apple
As flat as a pan
One side a woman
And the other a man
(A penny)
10 Round the house, round the house,
And lies at the back door
(The Twig)
11. I got it when I was not looking for it
When I was looking I could not get it.
(A thorn)
12 As I was going through a town,
I met a death that life was in, there were two outside and five within
(A cows head and a bird's nest in it)
13 The lazy little father, the hard working mother, and the twelve little children sitting on a pan(continues on next page)
