School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)

Location:
Ballymartle, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Patrick Kelleher

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Old Riddles

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 099D

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1. As white as milk as black as ink and hops on the ground like hailstone?
Ans. A Magpie

2. What always walks with its head down?
Ans. A nail in your boot.
3. Two N's two, O's an L and a D put it together and spell it for me?
Ans. London
4. Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry spell me that without a K?
Ans. That.
5. Behind the house there is a well, and in the well there is a cup, and in the cup there is a sup that every one must taste?
Ans. death.
6. What does the heaviest woman in the Dublin fish-market weigh?
Ans. Fish.
7. Spell a blackbird in four letters.
Ans. Crow.

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Collector
Rita Donoghue
Gender
female
Address
Riverstick, Co. Cork
Language
English