Scoil: Mc Kelvey's Grove (uimhir rolla 9130)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. A Collection of Riddles (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb over church, hill, steeple and all?
   The sun.

   What goes up the road with its head down?
   A nail in a man's boot.

   Black and white went up the hill black came down and white stood still?
   A black hen went up and laid a white egg.

   Chip chip charley all the men in Darley could not climb up chip chip charley?
   Smoke.

   There are two pigs, they lie quite still, when they get meat, they roar and cry and when they get none they lie quite still?
   The millwheel.

   What sits in a stone wall but is neither outside or inside?
   A window.

   What can a black hen do which a white hen cannot do?
   A black hen can lay a white egg and a white hen cannot lay a black egg.

   As round as an apple, as deep as a cup and all the king's horses could not put it up?
   A well.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Topaicí

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Elizabeth Ross

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   Baineann

   Aois

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   Seoladh

   Doocharn, Co. Monaghan

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mina Dickson

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Loughbrattoge, Co. Monaghan