School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 094
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- (continued from previous page)As round as an apple, as plump as a ball. Can climb the church over steeple and all.
(Answer):- The sun.Riddle, riddle my fathers fiddle,
Alive in both ends and dead in the middle.
(Answer):- Aman ploughing. A flock of white sheep upon a red hill, here they go, there to go now they stand still
(Answer):- Teeth in your gums. Four Mary Anders.
Two sticky standers.
Two glass eyes, and a wiper.
(Answer):- A Cow.What goes round the wood, and round the wood, and never gets into the wood.
(Answer):- Bark of a tree.Why is the sun like a good loaf?
(Answer):- Because its light when it rises.(continues on next page)
