School: Corboy, Meathús Truim (roll number 11421)
- Location:
- Corboy, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Susan Stephens
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- 1. The longer it lives the shorter it grows
A candle
2. What is it you can see and cannot catch?
Smoke
2. What has eyes but cannot see?
A potato.
4. The King of Morocco built a ship an(d) in that ship his lady sits an(d) I would be blamed for telling her name an(d) that is three times I have told it.
Ann
5. There is a little house and it would not hold a mouse, but it has as many windows as the Lord Mayor's house.
A Thimble.
6. As round as an apple as deep as a cup, and all the Kings horses would not pull it up.
A well
7. What goes round the house and draws a harrow after it?
A hen and a flock of chickens(continues on next page)- Collector
- Georgena Denniston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Drumnacross, Co. Longford