School: Bealach (roll number 5811)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Daltúin
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- (continued from previous page)14. As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Ballinderry would not pull it up. Ans. A well.
15. Patch upon patch without and stitches, riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches. Ans. A head of cabbage.
16. What is it, theat the more you take out of it the bigger it gets? Ans. A hole.
17. What is it that the longer it stands the shorter it grows? Ans. A lighterd candle.
18. A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a little brown cow with two leather horns. Ans. A hare.
19. God never sees it the king seldom sees it and we see it every day. Ans. His equal.
