School: Lear
- Location:
- Lear, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Gibson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1011, Page 007
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A ship set sail one day and it was full and here was not a single one in it?
They were all married.
It is full and still holds more?
A pot full of potatoes and it still holds water.
Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches?
A cabbage.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat?
A pipe.
As I went up coddy hill coddy he was shaking I put coddy in my pocket afraid the ducks would eat him?
A grain of oats.
As I wen up Tara hill I met four and twenty bulldogs taring up an acre?
A harrow.
Hairy in and hairy out.
A stocking.
Why is soup likely to run out of a saucepan?
When there is a leek in it.
When are weary persons like carriage wheels.
Because they are tired.
What walks with its head down?
A nail in a boot.
White and black and (red) read all over?
A newspaper.(continues on next page)
