School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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What is always behind time?
The Clock.
What stands still, wags its tail and runs?
A pump.
Patches upon patches without any stitches?
A head of cabbage
What is black and white and read all over?
The newspaper. - When is coffee like mud?
When it is ground.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you will never guess that?
A pipe.
As round as an apple as plump as a ball; can climb the church; over steeple and all?
The sun.
As I went up Tara Hill, Tara Hill was shaking and I(continues on next page)