School: Fahan Lower (roll number 14506)
- Location:
- Fathain Íochtarach, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: R. Ó Cléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)What goes round the house, and round the house, and trails a harrow after it?
Answer: A hen, and a clutch of chickens.
What always walks with its head down?
Answer: A nail in your shoe.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, your may guess for sure, but you cannot guess that?
Answer: A pipe.
Patch upon patch, without any stitches, Riddle with that, and I will buy you a pair of britches?
Answer: A cabbage.
What grows shorter?
Answer: A candle
What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle(continues on next page)- Collector
- Lillie Eakin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- An Lodán, Co. Dhún na nGall