School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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- (continued from previous page)(64) Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of britches
Ans. A head of cabbage.
(65) What's deeper than the sea Ans A tailor's thimble. Because there is no bottom to it
(66) What sits on its head. Ans A bee killing a fly
(67) Hiddy Haddy on the wall Haddy got a fall And all the men in Derry wouldn't put Hiddy Haddy together again
Ans An egg.
(68) It is as white as milk, as milk it isn't It is as black as sut, (soot) as soot it isn't. It hops on the road like a marble stone and a marble stone it isn't. Ans Magpie
(69) I sat on my hunkers I looked through my winkers I saw the dead buring the living
Ans A woman raking a fire.
(70) How high is a chinaman?
Ans. thats his name
(71) Its in the shop and in the meadow and isn't sold. Ans The sun.
(72) There was a lord who rode through the town Great grizell was his name his saddle girts was gilt with gold. That Three times I told his name Ans. "Was"(continues on next page)
