School: Cornanure (roll number 8923)
- Location:
- Cornanure, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0951, Page 040
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- (continued from previous page)Ans = Her breath.What is taken of you before you get it?
Ans = Your Photograph.Where was Moses when the light went out
Ans = In the dark.One side a woman the other a man?
Ans = A penny.What is the smallest bridge in the world?
Ans = The bridge of your nose.Riddle me riddle right where did I sleep last night through a rock, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel through a bag of pepper through a millers hopper through an old sheep's shank bone and such a riddle never was known?
Ans = A moth.what is full and will hold more?
Ans = A pot of potatoes.What gets bigger the more you take from it?
Ans = A hole.As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the king's horses could not pull it up?
Ans = A well.
