School: St Columba's, Cloonagh, Granard (roll number 12813)
- Location:
- Cloonagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peter O'Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 322
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- (continued from previous page)What is full and holds more?
A pot full of potatoes when you put in no water.What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets in to the wood?
The bark of a treeWhat has eight arms and no hands a wooden leg and cannot stand. Its often wet but it cannot feel, it wears no boots and its shod with steel A dress of silk with a belt across the middle, now can you guess this silly riddle?
An Umbrella.Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you could guess for ever, but you could not guess that?
A pipeHairy all over and rough in the skin two things shaking and one thing going in?
A pig eating out of a trough.How far can a person go into a wood?
Half ways because when you that far your are going out the other side.(continues on next page)
