School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 243
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11) Patch upon patch, without any stitches Riddle me that, and I'll buy you a pair of breeches? Cabbage.
12) I went up the road, and down the road, and I carried the road on my back.? a Ladder.
13) If a shovel of coal cost a half -crown what will a ton of it come to? ashes.
14) Spell black - water in three letters? Ink
15) There was a man in town, and there was so many patches in his breeches, that you could not count them, What time was it? It was time to get a new one.
16) Spell scraped of the haggard in three letters? Hen.
17) Spell broken down ditch in three letters? Gap.
18) The more you take from it the bigger it gets? Hole.
19.) A field of white cows, and a red one in the middle? your teeth and tongue.
