School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 284
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- (continued from previous page)Round the house, round the house and their heads down ?
The nails in your shoes.
Patch upon patch and no stitches?
A head of cabbage
I went to the wood and got it, I sat down and looked at it, and hardly home I brought it?
A thorn.
What's full and holds more?
A pot of potatoes
What has eyes but cannot see?
A blind man
I sat on my haunches and looked through my winkers and saw the dead burying?
A man raking a fire.
Under the fire and over the fire and cannot touch the fire?
A cake in an oven.
What bow can you not untie?
The Rainbow.
What are the four letters that would frighten a robber?
O. I. G. U.
It comes in on people's arms and goes out as fine as silk?
Turf.
What is cut but never eaten?
Cards.
I have a roomful and cannot take a spoonful?
Smoke.
Twenty -six cats on a wall, What time is it?
Twenty-five after one.
Why is the letter K like a pig's tail?
Because it is at the end of pork.
What is it that is growing old at the same time?
People.
What has eyes and cannot see?
A needle.
I threw it up white and it came down yellow?
An egg.(continues on next page)
