School: Tisrara (C.) (roll number 14930)
- Location:
- Four Roads, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 319
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1. Little red Nancy, sitting on a wall, the longer she sits the sooner she'll fall.
Answer. A candle
2. Black and white and read all over.
Answer. A newspaper
3. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup and all the people in the world could not draw it up
Answer. A well
4.Why does a cow look over a wall?
Answer. Because she cannot look under it.
5. Why does a hen pick a pot?
Answer. Because she cannot lick it
6. As sour as butter milk as green as grass. Riddle me that and i'll buy you an ass.
Answer. A sloe that is not ripe.
7. Under the fire and over the fire and never catches the fire.
Answer. A cake in an over.
8. Long legged father, round bodied mother three little children all the one colour.
Answer. A pot.
Mary Killian,
Cullowina,
Athleague, Roscommon.
- Collector
- Mary Killian
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cuillawinnia, Co. Roscommon
