School: Cnoc Luinge (C.) (roll number 11665)
- Location:
- Knocklong, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0510, Page 036
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- (continued from previous page)to its face.
What goes away between two woods and comes home between two waters?
A man fetching water in two wooden pails.
Middy noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat?
A pot.
What goes way above the ground and returns under the ground?
A man with sods on his head.
What is full and holds more?
A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
Over the fire and under the fire and still never touches the fire?
A cake in the oven.
A hand with no flesh in it?
A glove.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other side a man?
A penny.
Black and white and red all over?
A newspaper.
As round as an apple as deep as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Curtis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocklong, Co. Limerick
