School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 242
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- Heard but not heeded like a cuckoo in July.Riddles Ethel Moore from Mrs Keaney Church Lane near 40. What is it that rises + falls, travels about, wears shoes out, but never wears any shoes itself. A foot ball.When walking through a field of wheat, I picked up something good to eat, 'Twas neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor bone, but I kept it still till it ran alone. What was it? An egg.
What has no legs and still can climb.
Smoke.
- What is the smallest bridge in the world The bridge of your nose
What can be put in a dish but can never be taken out. A crack.
What stands on one leg and has its heart in its head A head of cabbage.
What turns without moving. Milk.
Which is the smallest Co. in Ireland Cork because it will go into a bottle.
What has eyes but cannot see
A potato.
Who was the fastest runner in the world. Adam because he was first in the human race.
On what toe does a corn never come
The mistletoe.
What was the 1st thing Adam planted in the garden of Eden. The sole of his foot.
Which part of a herring weighs most
The scales. - Collector
- Ethel Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Keany
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
