School: Baile Uí Ghrádaigh, Ceann Tuirc
- Location:
- Ballygrady South, Co. Cork
- Teacher: N., Bean de Róiste
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 119
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- Answer:- A head of cabbage.
As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church-wall over steeple and all.
Answer:- The sun.
What goes away over ground and comes back under ground.
Answer:- A man with sods on his head.
What goes between two woods and comes home between two waters.
Answer:- A man fetching water in two pails.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you will not guess that.
Answer:- A pipe.
Roomful and cannot take a spoonful.
Answer:- Smoke.
Why does a cow look over a ditch.(continues on next page)
