School: Inniskeen (roll number 13396)
- Location:
- Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Louis A. Duffy
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- (continued from previous page)gets one shilling what would he get for walking fifteen miles?
Answer: Sore feet.
Riddle: A little white and round house and it is full of meat it has no doors or windows to let me in to eat.
Answer. An egg.
Riddle: Why is a flea like a train
Answer: Because it runs over the sleepers.
Riddle: Black and white and red all over?
Answer: The News - paper.
Riddle: Whats out since the world started and its only five weeks old?
Answer/ The - moon.
Riddle: What breaks without falling
Answer: Day - break.
Riddle: What goes up the chimney down, and will not come down the chimney up?
Answer: An umbrella.
Riddle: What is most like a horse's shoe?
Answer: A Mare's shoe.(continues on next page)
