School: Louth (C.) (roll number 3252)

Location:
Louth, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Chasaide
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  1. What is the most like the half of the moon?
    The other half.
    As round as an apple as flat as a pan on one half a woman and on the other a man?
    A penny.
    A flock of white sheep on a red hill: here they go, there they go. now the stand still?
    Teeth in your gums.
    Black and white and red all over?
    A newspaper.
    If it takes two and a half yards to make a waistcoat what will it take to make a suit?
    The coat and trousers.
    Why does a chimney smoke?
    Because it can't chew.
    Why does a hen pick a pot?
    Because she can not lick it.
    What can a white hen do that a black hen cannot?
    she can lay a white egg.
    What is it that has an eye and cannot see?
    A needle.
    Why does a hen run across the road?
    To get to the far side of it.
    What is it that has three legs and cannot walk?
    A pot.
    Long legs short thight little head and no eyes?
    Tongs.
    Forty sheep went out a gap, forty more followed that, six seven ten eleven three and two how much is that?
    Five.
    Forty sick sheep went out a gap one died how much was left?
    Thirtynine.
    Sixty cups on a tray one fell off how much was left?
    Five.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Atkinson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Chanonrock, Co. Louth