School: Tuaim Gréine, Lúbán Díge
- Location:
- Tomgraney, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0591, Page 203
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- What is it that always walk with its head down?
A nail in your boot.
What goes around the wood, and around the wood, and never gets into the wood?
The bark of a tree.
If a piece of cloth will make a cap what will it take to make a suit?
A tailor.
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all?
The sun.
What goes away above the ground, and returns under it?
A man with sods on his head.
Niddy, noddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat?
A pot with a wooden lid.
What is full, and holds more?
A pot of potatoes when you pour water in.
One half dead, the other half living, and a tail wagging?
A dog with his head in a pot.
Patch upon patch, without any stitches, riddle me that, and I'll buy you a pail of breeches?
A cabbage.(continues on next page)
