School: Askamore (roll number 15675)
- Location:
- Askamore, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Margaret McGrath
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- (continued from previous page)As round as an apple, as plump as a ball can climb over church steeple and all.
Ans: The sun.
A hard working father a wee lazy mother, and twelve little children all like one another.
Ans: The face of the clock.
Jenny in the ditch and Jenny out of the ditch, and if you go near Jenny she will bite you.
Ans: A nettle.
I have a little horse, he is tied to a stake,the quicker he gallops he swallows the rope.
Ans: A spinning wheel.
Lives in winter, dies in summer.and grows with its roots upward.
Ans; An icicle.
I have a red cow, she sits by the fire, she eats all i give her and drinks none at all.
Ans; A fire.
Constantinople is a very big word. if you cannot spell it you are the biggest dunce in the world.
Ans:"It".
Twenty four white cows tied in a stall, up comes one red one and licks them all.
Ans: Your tongue and teeth.
black within, and black without
and many a nice thing goes in and out.
Ans: An oven.
Two legs sitting on three legs with one leg in his lap, up comes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Reddy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aska More, Co. Wexford
