School: Roundwood
- Location:
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Peadar Réamonn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0918, Page 012
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- What goes up the stairs black and white and comes down read all over? A paper.
A house full a room full and you could not catch a spoonful? Air
Why did Adam's son kill his brother? Because he was Abel.
Why is Ireland like a bottle? Because there is a Cork in it.
When is a fish like a bird? When it takes a fly.
Little red Nancy with a little red nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows? A candle.
What goes up a ladder with its head down. A nail in a boot.
I am as black as night, your home I make bright, wood feeds me, water kills me. What am I? Coal.
As high as the wall as red as blood as white as milk and sweet as candy. What is it? An apple.
Spell red rogue in three letters:
Fox.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Molly Traynor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockfadda, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr Matthew Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
