School: Cluainín (roll number 12001)
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoin Mac Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 356
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- (continued from previous page)a leaper of ditches, a thriper of thorns, a brown little fellow with two leather horns.
Answer. A rabbit.
It's once in every mountain, it's not in every hill, twice in twenty moments but not in twenty years.
Answer. The letter M.
It opens like a barn door, it shuts like a trap. You may guess for ever but you couldn't get that.
Answer. An umbrella.
It's red and it's green and it's purple between. The king would not touch it or neither the queen. The Pope that's in Rome would touch it as soon, Riddle me that from morning till night.
Answer. A rainbow.
On what side of the cup is the handle.
Answer. On the outside.
What has teeth cannot bite.
Answer. A comb.
As white as milk, as black as silk and jumping on the ground like hailstones
Answer. A magpie
Where was Moses when the light went out?
Answer. In the dark.(continues on next page)
