School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0143, Page 297
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- Riddles
(1) Red and white and emerald and green, and the King can not touch it no more than the Queen?
Ans. a Rainbow
(2) What has a neck and a body but nothing else?
Ans. a Bottle
(3) What is more than holes in a riddle?
Ans. Learners
(4) Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty got a great fall, and all the King's horses and all the King's men could not pull Humpty Dumpty together again?
Ans. an egg
(6) What eye never sheds a tear?
Ans. The eye of a needle(continues on next page)
