School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)

Location:
Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
C. Ó Maonaigh
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  1. Q Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you can't guess that.
    A A pipe
    Q What goes up the chimney down and won't go down the chimney up.
    A An umbrella
    Q As black as ink as white as snow it hops on the road like hailstones.
    A A magpie.
    Q I sat on my hunkers I looked through my winkers and saw the dead burying the live
    A Raking a fire.
    Q My mother sent me to your mother for the loan of the hitic the hatic the round whirly gig if you please man.
    A A churn.
    Q A housefull a roomfull and you couldn't catch a spoonful.
    A Smoke
    Q Humpty dumpty sat on the wall humpty dumpty had a great fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty dumpty together again
    A An egg.
    Q It's cut in the wood, it sounds in the town and earns its master many a hound.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maud Wylie
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corfad, Co. Monaghan