School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)

Location:
Milltown, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 392

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  1. (1) When does a hen cross a road? (When she wants to get to the other side.)
    (2) Black as ink, white as snow and hops on the road like hailstones. (A magpie)
    (3) What is the smallest man in the world and why? ( barber because he has to get up a ladder to shave a man)
    (4) How is it a man with two eyes can see less than a man with one? (A man with one eye can see two eyes with the other and he can only see one with him.
    (5) What word with a syllable added is shorter? (Short.)
    (6) What word of seven letters is spelled the same backward as forward? (Reviver)
    (7) What is it that of no use to a car, yet it cannot go without it? (Noise)
    (8) Which side of a horse would you get down off? (No side, its hair that grows on a horse, not down.)
    (9) Which is the grey goose or the white goose the gander? (A goose couldn't be a gander.)
    (10) Which side of a cup is the handle on? (The outside.)
    (11) What is it that goes for many miles
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Clinton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dunbyrne, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    Harry Clinton
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunbyrne, Co. Kildare