School: Rathwire (C.) (roll number 8416)
- Location:
- Rathwire, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. Caffrey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 460
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- Why is a ring like eternity
Because it has no end.
What is taken from you before you get it. (A photograph)
Why does a hen pick a pot.
Because she can't lick it.
Fire under and fire over and never touches a bit of the fire.
A cake in a oven.
What turns without moving.
Sour milk.
What part of a cow goes out in a gap first.
Her breath.
What lives when it eats and dies when it drinks.
(A fire)
Spell black water in three letters
Ink
Spell little red rogue in three letters.
(Fox)
Why is a horse wiser than a mouse.
(Because a horse can run of with his trap.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patricia Whelehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brutonstown, Co. Westmeath
