School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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- (continued from previous page)(19) What are they putting into the boots now Ans. Feet
(20) What can go from town to town and still be in a corner. Ans. A stamp on a letter
(21) It goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood
Ans. The barks of a tree.
(22) Why does a chimney smoke. Ans Because it cannot chew.
(23) Little white Johney, he has a red nose the longer he stands the shorter he grows. Ans. A Candle
(24) White as snow red as a rose and black as ink and ink it isn't
Ans. Black-berry
(25) Through a rock, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel, through a miller's hopper, through a bag of [pepper?] through a horse's skin bone. Riddle me that and I'll leave you alone
Ans A wood-louse.
(26) As round as an apple as flat as a pan a woman on one side, on the other side a man. Ans. A penny
(27) As round as an apple as plump as a ball it climbes the church, over steeple(continues on next page)
