School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)
- Location:
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Peoples
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1091, Page 049
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- Riddles 4. 1.. 1938
There was a man who had no eyes and he went out to view the skies,
He saw a tree with apples on it,
He took no apples off it nor he left no apples on it.
Answer. He had only one eye. He saw a tree with two apples on it and he only took one apple off and he left one apple on it.
What goes round and round the wood and never gets into it?
Answer. The bark of a tree.
What goes round the house and peeps into every hole.
Answer. The sun.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat, You may guess for ever but you would not guess that.
Answer. A pipe
What is the most bashful thing in the world.
Answer. A clock, because it keeps its hands before its face.
When is it risky to go to church.
Answer. When there is a canon in the pulpit.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William Morrow
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
