School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 418
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- (continued from previous page)Riddles
Blackie and Whitey went up the hill
Blackie came down and Whitey stayed still.
Black duck laid a white egg on hill and came down without it.
What ordered do we like to receive?
Postal Orders.
If Jack's father was Paddy's brother -
What was Jack to Paddy's mother?
Her grandson.
What is it that God cannot do?
(Leave His chair and give it to a better man
What is born in the wood and sounds in the town and earns its master many a Pound
A fiddle or a fluit.
What walks all day with its head down?
The nail in your boot.
I looked out my fathers window,
I saw a bunch of Palms,
No one could count them
Only God's own hands. The hair of your head.(continues on next page)
