School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121B, Page 01_012
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- 1. What is full and holds more? A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in
2. One half dead the other half alive and a tail wagging? A dog with his head in a pot.
3. Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you could not guess that? A pipe.
4. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and Ill but you a pair of breeches?A cabbage.
5. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood? The bark of the tree.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- David Roughneen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lakill, Co. Mayo
