School: Ardee (Mercy Convent) (roll number 8445)
- Location:
- Baile Átha Fhirdhia, Co. Lú
- Teacher: Sr M. Angel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0669, Page 138
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- Riddles
1.When has a person to give up?
When they are dying
2. What coat has no buttons?
A coat of paint
3. What is it that a white hen can do and a black one can not?
A white hen can lay an egg the colour of herself and a black can't
What is it that runs and has no legs?
A stream
Veronica O'Brien
John St
Ardee
- Collector
- Veronica O Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sráid Eoin, Co. Lú
- Riddles
1. Why does a cow look over a ditch?
Because she can't look under it
2. Why does a hen pick a pot?
Because she can't lick it
3. Forty sheep went out a gap, forty more followed that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how much is that
Three and two added together make five
4. As I went out my Grandfathers gap I met my Uncle Davey, I knocked him down, and sucked his blood, and left his body easy?(continues on next page)
