School: An Mhainistir, Malla (roll number 12519)
- Location:
- Mallow, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An Bráthair Lúcás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369, Page 507
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- A Collection of RiddlesQ. What has no legs but runs?
A. Water.
Q. Why is it dangerous to sleep in a train?
A. Because a train runs over sleepers.
Q. As I went up a slippery gap I met my uncle Davy. He had an iron nose and timber toes and upon my word he would frighten the crows?
A. A gun.
Q. Why does a horse look over a ditch?
A. Because he cannot look under it.
Q. What is that which you saw once and cannot see it again?
A. Yesterday.
Q. What goes around the wood and never gets into it?
A. The Bark of a tree.
Q. Ink, ank, under the bank ten drawing four?
A. A woman milking a cow.
Q. As high as a wall, as red as blood as white as milk, as sweet as honey?
A. An Apple on a tree.
Q. When is a soldier not a soldier?
A. When he is in quarters.(continues on next page)
