School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0303, Page 245
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- (continued from previous page)between two woods and comes home between two waters : - A man fetching water in pales : - What goes away above the ground and returns under it : - A man with sods in his head. Middy-nobody, round body. Three feet and a wooden hat : - A pot What's full and holds more : - A pot full of potatoes because you pour water in. One half dead, the other half living and a tail wagging : - A dog with his head in a pot. Headed like thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but coulden't guess that : - A pipe. Patch upon patch without any stitch riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of britches : A cabbage. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood : - The Bark of the tree.
- Black and white and red all over : - A newspaper. Why is coffee like an axe : - Because it must be ground before it is used. In which month do babies talk least : - February the shortest. As black as ink as white as milk and it hops on the ground like hailstone : - A Mackpie. What smells most in a perfume shop : - The nose. Under the fire and over the fire and(continues on next page)
