School: Leath-cheathrú (roll number 13437)
- Location:
- Lecarrow, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Ó Maidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 510
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- Q I There is a little town in Ireland
It is of great fame.
Spell it backwards and frontwards
And it is all the same?
Ans Navan
Q II What is the difference between a bottle of whiskey and a packet of salts?
Ans One is a movie and the other a talkie.
Q III What is it that the King seldom sees, God never sees, and the poor man sees it
every day?
Ans His own equal.
Q IV Said the child to the father "how did it come that you are my father and I am not your son?
Ans It was the daughter that was speaking
Q V Patch upon patch without any stitches
If you riddle me that I will buy you a pair of breeches?
Ans A head of cabbage.
Q VI Father and mother, brother and sister,
Running together and cannot catch each other?
The four wheels of a bus.
Q VII Under the fire and over the fire and cannot catch the fire?
Ans A cake in an oven.
Q VIII Round the wood and round the wood
And never gets into the wood?
Ans The bark of the tree.
Q IX What is the difference between a dead man and a dead pig?
Ans A dead man is no good and a dead pig is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheál Ó Goibhicín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lavy More, Co. Mayo
