School: Curraghmore (roll number 12714)
- Location:
- Curraghmore, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Donagh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 115
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- 1. Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I wil give you my breeches?
A head of cabbage.
2. Smoke in the wood and no fire?
The fog.
3. What always walks on its head?
A nail in a boot.
4. Why does a cow look over a ditch?
Because she cannot look over it.
5. Why does a hen pick a pot?
Because she cannot lick it.
6. A head and foot and four legs?
A bed.
7. What part of the cow does out in the gap first?
Her breath.
8. How would you make a slow horse fast?
Tie him to a post and make him fast.
9. Why is a shoemaker always prepared to die?
He gets up in the morning and prepares the sole for the last.
10. What has an eye and cannot see?
A needle.
11. A father and mother and twelve black children?
A clock.
