School: Cruach, Ráth gCaola (roll number 2007)
- Location:
- Croagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0501, Page 200
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- Riddles.Eight arms but no hand. A wooden leg, but cannot stand. Has no boots but shod with steel. A dress of silk with a belt round the middle. How can you guess this silly riddle?
An umbrella.How much clay is there in a whole four by six by two feet?
None.What is it that goes up the chimney down, but cannot go down the chimney up?
An umbrella.Two ducks before a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. How many altogether.
Three.Three pots boiling and no fire under them. What are they?
Three spring wells.What is it that flies and yet has no wings.
Dust.Why is the letter H like a cure for deafness?
Because it makes the ear hear.(continues on next page)
