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School: Hackettstown (2)

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Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Anna Seabrooke
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    What goes rount the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night?
    Answer:- A broom.
    A houseful, a roomful, and I couldent catch a spoonful.?
    Answer:- Smoke.
    What is headed like a thimble tailed like a rat? You can guess for ever, but you could not guess that?
    Answer:- A pipe.
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood.?
    Answer:- The bark of a tree.
    Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that an I will buy you a pair of breeches.?
    Answer:- A head of cabbage.
    As round as an apple as an apple as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all?
    Answer:- The sun.
    What is full and holds more?
    Answer:- A pot which is full of potatoes when you put water on them.
    A houseful, a yardful, and I could not catch an.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Jane Tutty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
    Informant
    Mrs R. Tutty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hacketstown, Co. Carlow