School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc

Location:
Charleville, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Móráin
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  1. What is the difference between a blind man and a sailor in prison?
    One cannot see to go and the other cannot go to see.
    What are the three most impossible things to be found?
    A shoe to fit the foot of a mountain a sheet for the bed of an ocean, and a towel to wipe the face of the earth.
    Which burns the longest a tallow candle or a wax candle?
    Neither of them they both burn shorter.
    What is it the more you take from it the larger it grows?
    A grave.
    How many balls of cord would it take to get to the sun?
    One if it was big enough.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Francie Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballysallagh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    James Leahy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballysallagh, Co. Cork