School: Rosenallis (roll number 5442)

Location:
Rosenallis, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Mrs L. Dagg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0823, Page 427

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0823, Page 427

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    What goes up and down and still never touches the sky or ground?
    (Handle of a pump)
    As round as an apple as deep as a pear it never cries out until it is pulled by the tail?
    (A bell)
    What has three feet and cannot stand?
    (A Yard)
    The man that made it did not want it. The man that wore it never saw it?
    (A Coffin)
    Long legs, short thighs,little head and no eyes?
    (A tongs)
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb over church over steeple and all?
    (The sun)
    Round and round the wood and still never gets into the wood?
    (The bark of a tree)
    Chip chip cherry all the men in Derry could not pull it up?
    (A well)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Egan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Corbally, Co. Laois