School: Cromadh (B.)

Location:
Croom, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 257

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    Some of the riddles which follow, and which are entirely the schoolboy's collection, are obviously mutilated. I give them, however, as I got them, excluding only those which are palpably of recent origin. D.O.C.
    1. A number of men travelling on board ship, and yet not a single man on it.
    Ans. They were all married.
    2. My mother sent me out to your mother for the loan of a ringdrumberrio, to shoot the ferryingo sitting on the rungo, eating all the lilies of the white tops.
    Ans. a goat eating white cabbage.
    3. There was a little house and a mouse couldn't fit in it, and all the men in town couldn't count the windows in it.
    Ans. A thimble.
    (Tiob. Ar. Cromadh)
    4. A little man in a field, if you touch his hand his nose will bleed.
    Ans. A pump.
    5. How many wells would make a river.
    Ans One if it were big enough.
    (Tiob. Ar. Cromadh).
    6. How man sticks go to make a crow's nest.
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