School: Ardagh (roll number 15035)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: L. Ó Maolghuala
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0768, Page 208
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- (continued from previous page)Answer:- Because the wall cannot look across him.
Riddle:- Spell the red rogue of the world in three letters.
Answer:- Fox.
Riddle: Black and white and red all over.
Answer:- A newspaper.
Riddle:- What is it that goes round the wood and never touches a bit of the wood?
Answer:-A knife in a man's pocket.
Riddle:- Why do we go to bed?
Answer:- Because the bed won't go to us.
Riddle:- As I went out on yonder gap I met a little gassun with a bunch of rods and no one could count them but God.
Answer:- The hair of his head.
Riddle:- .As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the king's horses would not fill it up.
Answer:- A well.
Riddle:- What is the difference between an elephant and a flea.
Answer:- A flea cannot have elephants but elephants can have fleas.
Riddle:- When it is shut it is open and when it is open it is shut.
Answer:- The railway gates.
Riddle:- Hairy in and hairy out and hairy into hairy's mouth.
Answer:- A man putting on his stockings.
Riddle:- What is it that appears twice in moment once in a minute and never in a thousand years?
Answer:- The letter M.
Riddle:- Busy father lazy mother twelve little children all the one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Michael Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Lissanisky, Co. Longford
