School: Cill Rónáin
- Location:
- Keadew, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Eochaidhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 330
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- (continued from previous page)3. Ans. cow dung.
4. What gets bigger, the more you take from it.
Ans. a hole in the ground.
5. What foot can no shoe fit?
Ans. the foot of a hill.
6. What trunk can no key open.
Ans. the trunk of a tree.
7. Headed like a timble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever, but you could not guess that.
Ans. a pipe.
8. Niddy, noddy, round body, three feet, a wooden hat.
Ans. a pot.
9. Blacky and whitie went up the hill, blacky came down and, whitie stood still.
Ans. a hen and an egg.
10. Why does a hen pick a pot.
Ans. because she cant lick it.
11. Around the house and into every hole(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph P. Mc Manus
- Gender
- Male
