School: Mercy Convent
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: The Sisters
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- (continued from previous page)7. What walks with its head down?
(A nail in a boot)8. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all?
(The sun)9. There is a tiny house; it would not hold a mouse and it has many windows as the King's big house.
(Thimble)10. What is the most useful thing in the house and the least thought of?
(The dish-cloth)11. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
(The bark of a tree)- Collector
- Sadie Herron
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan