School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Clongeen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 233
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- (continued from previous page)25. It has a head, a foot, and four legs but cant stir.Ans. "A bed".
=====26. "Big mouth, can't eat
Two ears can't hear
Three legs cant walk."Ans. "A pot"
=====27. "The King of Morocco built a ship
An' in that ship his daughter sat
An' I'll be blamed for telling her name,
An' there's three times I have told it"Ans "Anne"
=====28. "England, Ireland, France and Spain
All gathered up in a shower of rain
Put in a bag + tied with string
Riddle me that + I'll give you a ring."Ans. "A pudding".=====(continues on next page)
