School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)15 Round the house and round the house with a harrow after it.
- A hen with a clutch of chickens.16 Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty-Dumpty got a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Wouldn't put Humpty together again
- An egg.17 Riddle-me riddle-me rantie-o.
My father gave me seeds to sow.
The seeds were black and the ground was white.
Riddle me that and I'll give you a pipe.
- A paper and ink.18 What comes into the house and goes out of the house yet never touches the house?
- The sun.19 As round as a marble,
As flat as a pan
Half a woman and a whole man.
- A penny (Victorian. Britannia was mistaken for a man).20 Riddle-me riddle-me ranty
My father's legs were banty
And if he heard me say that
He;d put me into a ranty.
- A frog.(continues on next page)
