School: Baile Roibín, Knocktopher

Location:
Newmarket, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 175

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  1. Q. What goes around the house all day and sleeps in the corner all night?
    A. a brush
    Q. Black and white and read all over?
    A. a newspaper
    Q. This is not inside the house nor outside the house and still tis' under the roof?
    A. the window
    Q. ink ark under the bank ten drawing four?
    A. a woman milking a cow.
    Q. Why is Sunday the strongest day of all the days?
    A. Because the others are week days.
    Q. Little red Nancy sits by the wall she eats all she gets and drinks none at all?
    A. a fire.
    Q. Betty behind the ditch and Betty before the ditch and if you tip Betty she will bite you?
    A. A f nettle
    Q. As round as a marble as deep as a pear and it never calls out until it is caught by the tail.
    A. A bell
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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