School: Earl Darnley (roll number 13573)
- Location:
- Baile Átha Buí, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Siubhán Ní Loichéid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)14) As round as an apple,
As deep as a cup,
And all the King's horses,
Could not pull it up.
Answer: A Well.
15) What is it that is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
Answer: A carpet.Told and written by: Noel Booker, Crossakiel, Kells, Co. Meath
- 1) How is it that a horse is never hungry when he is ploughing?
Answer. Because he has always a bit in his mouth.2) Why is Ireland like a bottle?
Answer. Because it has a cork in it.3) What always walks with his head down
Answer. A nail in your boot.4) What's full and holds more?
Answer. A pot full of potatoes when you pour in water.5) What's alive at both ends and dead in the middle?
Answer. A man ploughing.6) Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you wont geuss that.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Dick Mac Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stirrupstown, Co. na Mí
