School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0565, Page 104
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- R. Long legs crooked thighs little head and no legs
A. A tongs.
R. Long legged father, big Flaiceamlach mother and three little children all the same clour.
A. A pot and hangers
R. Twelve little rashers frying on a pan, a lazy old woman and a hard working man.
A. A clock.
R. Through a rock, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel, through a basin full of pepper through a horse's shin bone, such a riddle was never known.
A. Thunder and lightning.
R. As round as a biscuit, as busy as a bee, the prettiest little thing you ever could see.
A. A watch.
R. What is the difference between a tree and an aeroplane?
A. One leaves its shed and the other sheds its leaves.
R. What is the difference between a stamp and an ass.
A. You would stick one with a lick and you would lick the other with a stick.
R. Eight arms no hand a wooden leg but cannot stand made of silk and shod with steel, often wet but cannot feel, a dress of silk and belt around(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Butler
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curraghnagarraha, Co. Waterford
