School: Swords (B.) (roll number 755)
- Location:
- Swords, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: A. Hamill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0789, Page 16
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- Riddles
Q. As round as an apple, as busy as a bee, if you tell me the riddle I'll give you the key?
a. A clock.
Q. I have a little man up in the field and when I pull his leg his nose will bleed?
a. a pump.
Q. Londenderry, Cork and Kerry which of them would float?
a. Cork.
Q. I have a little round house,
and it is full of meat,
it has no doors nor window,
to let me in to eat?
a. An egg.
Q. a houseful, a roomful, you would never catch a spoonful?
a. Smoke.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Richard Nugent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathbeale Road, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Christopher Nugent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Rathbeale Road, Co. Dublin
