School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 077
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- (continued from previous page)out? (In the dark)
What part of a cow goes out on a gap first? (Her breath)
What gets wet with drying? A towel.)
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb over church steeple and all? (The sun)
Constantinople is a very big word, and if you cant spell "it" you're a very big dunce? (it it)
Why does a hen pick a pot? (Because She cant lick it)
Whats full and holds more? (A pot full of potatoes when water is poured in.)
It grows in the wood it sounds in the town and earns for its master many a pound? (A fiddle)
Patch upon patch without any stitches? (A head of cabbage)
As black as ink but ink it is not, as white as milk but milk it is not, and it hops on the road like hailstones? (A mag)
What is always behind time? (The back of a clock)
What gets bigger the more you take from it? (A hole.)
As round as an apple as flat an a pan one side a woman and the other side a man. What is that?
(A penny)
What is the shyest thing in the world? (A(continues on next page)
