School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 117
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- As round as an apple. As plump as a ball. Can climb the Chruch over Steeple and all?
The Sun.Why does a cow look over a wall?
Because she can't look under it.A house-ful and a room-ful and you couldn't catch a spoon full?
Smoke.What is the strongest thing in the world?
A snail, because it can carry it's house.Says a child to it's father how does it come that you are my father and I an not your son?
because it was his Daughter.A round as an apple, as flat as a pan. One side a woman, and the other side a man?
A Penny.As I went out as I went it, from the dead the live did spring. Six did lie, seven did fly Riddle me that and I willing to die?
A bird's nest in a Churchyard.Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may(continues on next page)
