School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)
- Location:
- Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 303
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What is the left side of a plum-pudding.
A. That which is not eaten.
- Q What goes away between two woods and comes back between two rivers.
A A man with two pails of waterQ. Riddle me right where I lay last night through a rock through a reel through an old spinning wheel through a bag of pepper through an old shin bone.
A MothQ Rings on her fingers bells on her toes, touch her in the middle and off she goes
A A gunQ What goes through the the wood and through the wood and never touches the wood
A A knife in a man's pocketQ What stands outside the wood and eats inside the wood
A A pig eating out of a trough - Collector
- Stewart Rutledge
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tattybrack, Co. Monaghan
