School: An Druipseach
- Location:
- Dripsey, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0348, Page 201
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- As round as an apple, as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all?
Answer : the Sun.
2. What is it always walks with its head down?
Answer : A nail in your boot.
3. What turns without moving?
Answer : Milk turning sour.
4. What goes away between two woods and comes home between two waters?
Answer : A man fetching water in pails.
5. Middy - noddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat?
Answer : A pot.
6. What goes away above the ground, and returns under it?
Answer : A man with sods on his head.
7. Patch upon patch, without any stitches, riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches?
Answer : cabbage.
8. What's full and holds more?
Answer : A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
9. One half dead, the other half living and a tail wagging?
Answer : A dog with its head in a pot.
10. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that?
Answer : A pipe.
11. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
Answer : The bark of a tree.
- Informant
- Mrs Maurice Ring
- Gender
- Female
