School: Glin (C.) (roll number 3232)
- Location:
- Glin, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0480, Page 298
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5. What is it that travels from this to Dublin and never moves an inch?
A railway track
6. Why does a donkey cross the road?
To get to the other side
7. What part of a cow goes over the ditch first?
His breath
8. What goes around the house and sleeps in the corner at night?
A broom
9. what is the end of time and beginning of eternity?
The letter E
10. What goes around the wood but never gets into the wood?
The bark of a tree
11. Patch upon patch without an stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of britches.
A head of cabbage
12. Why is the letter K like a pig's tail?
Because it is at the end of pork
13. Why are stockings like dead men?
Theygo into holes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Choileáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glin Demesne, Co. Limerick
