School: Louth (B.) (roll number 1553)
- Location:
- Louth, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Randles
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- As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all?
The sun.What is it always walks with its head down?
A nail in your boot.What goes away between two woods and comes home between two water?
A man fetching water in pails.What goes away above the ground and return under it?
A man with sods on his head.What is a black bird the same as a rich man?
Because he is always changing his notes.Middy-noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat?
A pot.What is full and holds more?
A pot full of potaotes, when you pore water in.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eóin Ó Ruadhghán
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullavally, Co. Louth