School: Hackettstown (2)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Anna Seabrooke
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- What goes rount the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night?
Answer:- A broom.
A houseful, a roomful, and I couldent catch a spoonful.?
Answer:- Smoke.
What is headed like a thimble tailed like a rat? You can guess for ever, but you could not guess that?
Answer:- A pipe.
What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood.?
Answer:- The bark of a tree.
Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that an I will buy you a pair of breeches.?
Answer:- A head of cabbage.
As round as an apple as an apple as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all?
Answer:- The sun.
What is full and holds more?
Answer:- A pot which is full of potatoes when you put water on them.
A houseful, a yardful, and I could not catch an.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sarah Jane Tutty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mrs R. Tutty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow