School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 147
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Riddles (continued)
“Q: Ninety (nine tea) cups hanging on a shelf...”
(continued from previous page)and in the dunghill now I am laid.
A. Turf turned into ashes.
Q. Riddle me riddle my auntio my father gave me seed to sow. The seed was black and the ground was white riddle me that again to morrow night.
A. Print on a newspaper.
Q. What goes round the house and round the house and still never touches the house.
A. A lazy woman.
Q. How many wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
A. Twentysix (twenty sick) sheep went out through a gap one died how many came back?
A. Nineteen.
Riddles
“Q. What is it that people never see?”
Q What is it that people never see?
A To-morrow
Q What has eyes but can't see?
A A potato
Q If a hen and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half how many would she lay in a week?(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Kate Behan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossmore, Co. Laois