School: Carrickerry, Árd-achadh (roll number 11281)
- Location:
- Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Chonaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0487, Page 478
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- Q. What kind of tables are eaten?
A. Vegetables.
Q. What can be found where it is not?
A. Fault.
Q. Eight arms but no hand,
A wooden leg but cannot stand,
Is often wet but cannot feel,
Has no boots but is shod with steel.
A dress of silk with a belt in the middle,
Now can you guess this silly riddle?
A. An Umbrella
Q. What is it that is bought by the yard and sold by the fool?
A. A carpet.
Q. What is the strongest thing in the world?
A. A snail-because he carries his house on his back.
Q. I sat at a tree in the morning, it was up to the sky in the evening.
A. Smoke of a fire.
Q. Why is a horse like a story book?
A. Because it has a tale.
Q. Scratch my back and I am nobody, treat me well and I am everybody?
A. A mirror.
Q. There is a little red cow standing by the wall, she eats all she gets and drinks nothing at all?
A. A fire.(continues on next page)
