School: Killeigh
- Location:
- Cill Aichidh, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: T. Mac Amhalghaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0804, Page 047
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- (continued from previous page)head down?
A. A nail in your boot.
Q. What goes away above the ground and returns under it?
A. A man with sods on his head.
Q. Middy-Moddy, round body three feet and a wooden hat?
A. A pot.
Q. As round as an apple as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman and the half of a man.
A. A penny.
Q. What's full and holds more?
A. A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
Q. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you could guess for ever, but you could not guess that.
A. A pipe.
Q. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a hat?
A. A cabbage.
Q. As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Bhealaigh, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
