School: Cruach, Ráth gCaola (roll number 2007)
- Location:
- Croagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0501, Page 202
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- (continued from previous page)Pitched on dry wall.Father handless took it up handless.
Ate it toothless and ran away horseless?
Snow.'Tis black and white and red all over?
a newspaper.Why is the letter I in the word military compared to a pretty girl's nose?
Because in the middle of two eyes.As round as a marble as flat as a pan, half a woman and the whole of a man?
A Penny.I had a little thing, it would (?) all round brass in its head and steel in its mouth?
A top. What has four eyes, but cannot see?
A button.What has a tongue, but cannot talk?
The tongue of your boot.What walks on their heads all day and sleeps all night?
The nails of a boot.Take my letter away and all my letters away and I am still the same?
A post-man.What county does a candle represent when half burned out?(continues on next page)
