School: Collon (Erasmus Smith) (roll number 16325)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Ní Earchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0677, Page 125
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- (continued from previous page)eyes? A tongs.
Patches upon patches and stitches without stitches riddle me that and I'll give you my breeches? Cabbage
Alive in the front, dead in the middle, christened behind come tell me the riddle? A man ploughing.
A hard working father, a lazy old mother and twelve little devils the size of each other. A clock.
Black and white and read all over. A newpaper.
Three-quarters of a cross, a circle complere. Two semi-cirlce, an angle triangle standing on feet, two semicirles and a circle complete? TOBBACCO.
