School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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- (continued from previous page)Two things wagging
And one going in - "A pig eating"
11. Black and white and read all over - A newspaper.
12. Why does a cow look over the ditch - "Because she can't look under it."
13. Long legs, short thighs little head and no eyes - "Tongue"
14. What has an eye and cannot see. - "A needle"
15. I have a little house and it wouldn't hold a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayor's house. "A thimble."
16. What stick never grew in the wood - "A candlestick"
17. What is a herring worth when half eating - "Worth turning"
18. A big bellied mother, a crooked backed father, and three little children the verry same as one another - "A foot"
19. It's in the pot and in the pan
And in the kettle and in the can
And in the manger quiet secure
And in the tub out side the door
And in the bog though hard to find - "A bottom"
20. Why is July sun like a sixpence - "Because its a tanner."
21. Which is the largest room in the world -"The room for improvement"(continues on next page)
