School: Gráinseach, Cill Mocheallóg (roll number 9970)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Loínsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0516, Page 286
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- (continued from previous page)A Collection of Riddles
11.
What is a horse’s shoe like?
Like a mare’s.
12.
What goes up the ladder with their head downwards.
The nails of your boots.
13.
Why is a big man lazier than a small man?
Because he is longer in bed.
14.
How many sides in a bucket?
Two the inside and the outside.
15.
I ran up the road, and down the road, and I took the road home on my back?
A Ladder.
16.
What part of a car goes into the town first?
Its Noise.
17.
If I were in the sun and you were out of it what would the sun be?
Sin
18.
As black as ink; as white as milk and it hops on the road like hailstone?
A Magpie.
19.
“Ink-ank” under the bank, and ten drawing four?
A woman milking a cow.
20.
Under the water and over the water and it never touches the water?
The reflection of the moon.(continues on next page)
