School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Two iron ears and can't hear;
Three iron legs and can't walk?
- A pot.31 Patches upon patches without any stitches
Riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches.
- A head of cabbage.32 What is full and can hold more?
- A pot full of potatoes will hold water.33 What goes away above ground and returns under it?
- A man who goes for sods and brings them back on his head.34 What is the strongest animal in the world?
- The snail, because he carries his house on his back.35 Why does a cow look over the ditch?
- Because she can't look under it.36 Little Jenny Huddle sits in a puddle,
With a green gown and a yellow cap.
- A flagger (i.e., wild iris).37 Ink-ank on the bank, ten drawing four?
- A man milking a cow.38 Twenty-six sheep went out a gap; one died and how many were left?
- Nineteen (Twenty 'sick' sheep).39 Alive in the front, dead in the middle, and baptised behind?
- A man ploughing.(continues on next page)