School: Cros-Bhóthar (roll number 14688)
- Location:
- Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0020
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- (continued from previous page)5) It is over the fire and under the fire and it never touches the fire. A cake in the oven.
6) It is in during day and out during the night.
The latch of the door.
- 1) Patch upon patch with no stitches
Riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches.
A Cabbage
2) What goes around the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
The bark of a the tree.
3) What is it that always walks with its head down? A nail in your boot.
4) Headed like a thimble
Tailed like a rat
If you were guessing for ever
You would not guess that.
A Pipe.
5) Why does a cow look over the fence
Because she cannot look under it.
6) one half dead, the other half alive
And a tail wagging
A dog with his head in a pot.
7) As round as an apple
As flat as a pan(continues on next page) - Collector
- Treasa Ní Bhriain
- Gender
- Female
