School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 204
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- (continued from previous page)down? A nail in your boot.
23. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, climbs the church, over steeple and all? The Sun.
24. Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty more followed that. Three and two, how much is that? Five.
25. What goes round the field and into the house at night? Boots.
26. What is it will go up the chimney down but wont come down the chimney up? An umbrella.
27. Long legs, short toes,
little head, and no nose?
A Tongs.
28 What makes a ball hop?(continues on next page)
