School: Ring, Dalahasey (roll number 9111)
- Location:
- Ring Commons, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ní Reachtaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0783, Page 33
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- (continued from previous page)Riddle. Little Jinny spinny the longer she sits the shorter she gets
Answer - A candle
Riddle - Head like a timble tail like a rat you may guess for ever but you would not guess that
Answer - A pipe.
Riddle - Forty sheep went out a gap forty more went after that a man and a dog followed that, how many feet went out the gap
Answer - Two feet
Riddle - What has an eye and can't see
Answer - A needle.
Riddle - Red under white over and black in the middle
Answer. A gridle of bread
Riddle - What has an eye and cannot see
Answer - A needle
Riddle - A little white house full of meat and no door to get into to eat.
Answer. An egg.
- Collector
- Kevin White
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Dermotstown, Co. Dublin
