School: Beanna (roll number 9524/5)
- Location:
- Banna West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0414, Page 269
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- (continued from previous page)spinning wheel through a horses shin bone such a riddle was never known?
A: A thunder.
R: Hector compector was dressed in green Hector Compector went to visit the Queen. The Queen did not like it nor neither the King so Hector Compector was sent back again?
A: A head of cabbage.
R: Put five into me?
A: Five toes in a stocking
R: A steel horse and a brass drawer?
A: A needle and a thimble
R:Why does a hen cross the road?
A: To get to the other side
R: It is black, it is white and it is red all over?
A: A news paper
R: Where was Noah when the light went out?
A: In the darkness
R: Spell blind pig in two letters?
A: Pg
R: Spell broken down ditch in three letters
A: Gap
R: If you committed suicide in Ireland where would you be hanged?
A: No place
