School: Achadh Mín, Dundalk (roll number 3407)
- Location:
- Aghameen, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0660, Page 083
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- Riddles 30th 6 - 1938
1 Up the road and down the road and carry the road on my back = A Ladder.
2 If it takes twenty minutes to bathe a baby what till it take to dry him = A Towel
3 What is it and the more you take out of it the bigger it gets. = A hole in the ground.
4 Black and white and red all over = A news paper
5 What is it that goes up the ladder with its head down. = A nail in your boot.
6 Patch upon patch with out any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of britches. =
= A cabbage
7 Why dose a hen pick a pot. = Because she can not lick it.
8 I have a little cow I can give her plenty hay but if I give her any water it will kill her = A fire
9 Round the house, and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night = A brush.
- Collector
- Moira Rice
- Gender
- Female
