School: Drumbibe (roll number 10765)
- Location:
- Drumbibe, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Searplaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0223, Page 261
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- Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches. As.: A head of cabbage.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you would never guess that. Ans.: A pipe.
What goes up the chimney down, but won't come down the chimney up. Ans.: an umbrella.
Eight arms without a hand; a wooden leg that cannot stand; it is always wet but cannot feel; it has no shoes but shod with steel; it has a dress of silk with a belt in the middle; now can you guess this silly riddle. Ans.: An umbrella.
What sleeps with its finger in its eye. Ans.: The crook.
Forty sheep went out in a gap, forty more followed that; forty seven, ten and eleven, three and two how much is that. Ans.: Five.
What is black and white and read all over. Ans.: The newspaper.
As round as an apple, as flat as a pan; one side a woman, and the other side a man. Ans.: A penny.
As green as grass, but grass it isn't; as red as blood but blood it isn't: as black as ink(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Brady
- Gender
- Female
