School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 186
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- (continued from previous page)22. What sleeps with its fingers in its eye? Crook.
23. What sleeps in the corner at night? Besom
24. What goes into the water and says clink clink and never drinks? A horse's shoe.
25. What part of a cow goes in first into the byre? Breath.
26. The half of a moon and the whole of a hill? Mohill.
27. Spell broken down ditches in three letters? Gap.
28. Why do you go to bed? Because the bed will not come to you?
29. There is a little messenger, lying at the well he neither eats bread nor drinks milk and never moves only dips his head? A writing pen lying at the ink well
30. A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat, if you guess for ever, you'll never guess that? Pipe.
31. As round as a biscuit, as busy as a bee, riddle me that and I'll give you a cup of tea? Clock.
32. I have a little cow placed at the wall, she drinks all she gets and eats none atall? Lamp.
33. Ten drawing four? Woman milking a cow.(continues on next page)
