School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 113
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- 25-1-38 Riddles
Why does a donkey eat thistles.
Because she is an ass.
What is it the longer it grows the shorter it gets.
A candle.
Twenty sick ( six) sheep went out in a gap one died how many came back.
Nineteen.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the kings horses could not pull it up.
A well.
How many hares have a dogs tail.
None they are all growing out of it.
As I looked out of a narrow window I (heard) saw the dead carrying the living.
A train.
I have a sister she lives in the grass she has twenty four elbows & one in the back
A daisie
When was beef the highest it ever had been
When the cow jumped over the moon.
- Collector
- Sarah Prender
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stangs, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stangs, Co. Kilkenny
