School: Kilbegnet (roll number 1327)
- Location:
- Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)Riddles..5.
As round as an apple,
As deep as a cup,
And all the men in Ireland,
Would not pull it up.Ans: A well.6.
Patch upon patch,
Without any stitches,
Riddle me that,
And I'll buy you a britches.Ans: A head of cabbage..7.
It is round,
It is a pound,
And it does not weigh two ounces.Ans: A sovereign..8.
Humpty, dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty dumpty got a great fall,
All the kings horses,
And all the kings men,
Would not put humpty dumpty,
Together again.Ans: An egg.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Seán Ó hEagartaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Millford, Co. Galway