School: Rosenallis (roll number 5442)
- Location:
- Rosenallis, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mrs L. Dagg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0823, Page 367
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- What is full and holds more?
A pot of potatoes holds water.
As black as ink as white as milk and hops about like hale stones?
A magpie,
A little white house full of meat it has no doors or windows to let me in oest?
An Egg.
Patch upon patch without any stitches?
A cabbage head.
Round and round the wood and still never get into it?
The bark of a tree.
Eats all its food and dies when it drinks?
A Fire.
Black and white and read all over?
A newspaper.
How would you get down off an ass?
There is no down on an ass.
- Collector
- Joe Egan
- Gender
- Male
