School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)
- Location:
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 285
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- (continued from previous page)Ans. A blackberry.9/ Riddle me riddle me has one eye and can't see?
Ans. A needle10/ Forty sheep on yonder gap forty more along with that six seven ten eleven three and two how many is that?
Ans. Five11/ What sleeps on an iron peg at night?
Ans. The dish cloth.
- 1/ Long legs short thighs little head and no eyes?
Ans. A tongs2/ Long and yanky deaf and dumb has no eyes but still can run?
Ans. A river.3/ Round the house and round the house and stays in the corner at night?
Ans. The twig.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Sheila Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
