School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Stormanstown, Ardee
- XML Page 017
- XML “Riddles”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)58 Blacky sat on Rucky Dempsey, looked at that pawy, stuck it in gubby, and tell me what is that? (Alice Halpenny)
- A blackberry59 What is it that is cut in the wood, sounds in the town, and earns its master many a pound?
- A fiddle.60 Face me fair and I am everybody;
Scratch my back and I am nobody.
- A mirror.61 As I looked out my grandfather's window I saw the dead carrying the live.
- A shipload of people.62 I went to the wood and I got it; I sat down to look for it but couldn't find it; so I had to bring it home with me.
- A thorn in my foot.63 What two tradesmen work hardest against each other?
- A tinker and a shoemaker. (The former makes tins to keep water in, while the latter makes boots to keep it out).(continues on next page)