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 119
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- (continued from previous page)The longer it stands the shorter it gets?
A candle.It grows in the wood,
And sounds in the town,
And earns its master many a pound?
A Fiddle.How many sticks go to a crows nest?
None go to, it, they are all carried to it.A clipper of ditches, a leaper of Thorns,
A little brown cow with a leather pair of horns?
A Rabbit.What turns without moving?
Milk.Why does a hen pick a pot?
Because she can't lick it.What is the shyest thing in the house?
A clock, because it always keeps it's hands on its face.Round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner?
A brush.As I went up the mountain,
I met my auntie Nora,
Steel toes, iron nose,
What is that would frighten the crows?
A gun.What has two eyes and cannot see?
A pair of scissors?A little wood, a little wire, a little house without a(continues on next page)
