School: Balla (C.)
- Location:
- Balla, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Katie M. Walker
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - 1. What goes round the wood, and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
Answer, The bark of the tree.
2. Middy-noddy, round body, Three feet and a wooden hat.
Answer, A "pot."
3. What goes away above the ground, And returns under it?
Answer, A man with sods on his head.
4. What goes away between two woods, And comes home between two waters?
Answer, A man fetching water in pails.
5. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball,
Can climb the church, over steeple and all?
Answer, "The sun."
6. White bird featherless flew down from Paradise lit upon the highways Lord landless took it up handless and left it down toothless
Answer, Flakes of snow. Told to me by my mother.
7. What has most eyes and sees nothing.
Ans. A potato. Told to me by my mother.
