School: Baile Mac Rabhartaigh (roll number 3978)
- Location:
- Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Fiannaidhe
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- (continued from previous page)Muddy – Roddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat.Answer, A Pot.One half dead, the other half living and a tail wagging.Answer, A Dog with his head in a pot. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood.Answer, The bark of a treeI put my foot upon her foot and on her I did jig, And with my furly long thing, I filled her furly gig.Answer, A woman spinning wool.Ink, Ank, under the BankTen drawing four.Answer, A woman milking a cow. As I was going to London I saw a great wonder. Four and twenty wild
geese, tearing the world asunder.Answer, A man harrowing.What did the girl buy the box of Vaseline for?Answer, For twopenceWhen does a cat become larger and smaller.Answer, When she is let out in the morning and taken in at night.What hangs and bears and never blossoms.Answer, a Crook.A house full, a room full, you couldn’t catch a spoonfull.Answer, The Smoke.A little round house and its full of meat. It has no doors or windows to let you in to eat.Answer, An Egg.- Collector
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