School: Clover Hill (roll number 13262)
- Location:
- Lissagallan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoilealaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 353
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- Riddles
1. What is it you would not like to have and if you had it you would not like to lose it?
Answer A bald head.
2. Two white men and one black man went out motoring one day. The two white men ate the black man what was the number of the car?
Answer 2 8 1
3. Headed like a thimble, tailed like the rat, you may guess forever but you wouldn't guess that.
Answer A pipe
4. What has eyes and cannot see?
Answer a potato.
5. As white as milk, as black as ink it hops on the ground like hailstones.
Answer A Magpie.
6. Round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood
Answer The bark of a tree,
7 Long legs croocked thighs a bald head and and no eyes. Answer A thongs.
8 Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry spell me that without K.
Answe T H A T
9 Over the fire under the fire and never touches the fire. Answer A cake in an oven
10 Two Ns two os - an L and a D put that together and spell it for me. Answer L O N D O N.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila Quigley
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Miss M. Quigley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 19
- Address
- Rathconor, Co. Roscommon
