School: Cill Bheoláin (C.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Kilbolane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369, Page 022
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- Black and white and read all over? Newspaper
Riddle me riddle me what is that, over the head, and under the hat? The hair of your head.
Headed like a timble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever, but you will not guess that.? A pipe.
As round as a marble as deep as a cup the king and his army could not take it up? A well.
A flock of white sheep on red hill, here they go, there they go, now they stand still? Your teeth.
Why does the collector at a railway station punch a hole in your ticket? To let you pass through.
What is most like a horses shoe? His other shoe.
What is worse than having a hole in your stocking? Having one in each stocking.
What is the difference between a wet day and a lion distracted with a tooth-ache? One is pouring with rain and the other is roaring with pain.
The king of England gave to his daughter a bottomless vessel to hold raw meat, what is it? A ring.
What is like half of the moon? The other half.
Once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in a thousand years? The letter m.
What precious stone will cover an entrance? A gate.
Why is an echo like a lady? Because she will have the last word.
- Collector
- Joan O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Milford, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Bridie O' Connell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Milford, Co. Cork
