School: Béal Átha Lúibe, Cahir (roll number 9856)
- Location:
- Ballylooby, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ceitinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 224
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- Long legs, crooked thighs, little head and no eyes.
A thongs
Ink, ank under a bank, ten drawing four
A person milking a cow.
I went up the borheen, I came down the borheen and I brought the borheen on my back
A ladder
It is black and white and {red read} all over
what is it?
A newspaper.
What goes from Dublin to Cork without moving?
The Road.
A riddle, a riddle as I suppose. a hundred eyes and never a nose?
A sieve
What is it that can go up the chimney down, but not down the chimney up.
An umbrella
Use me well and I'm everybody Scratch my back and I'm nobody
A mirror(continues on next page)
