School: Kildalkey (B.) (roll number 867)
- Location:
- Kildalkey, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Fearghail
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Headed like a thimbler, tailed like a rat. You may guess many riddles but you couldn't guess that? A pipe.
There is a little house and it wouldn't fit a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayor's House? A thimble.
What always walks with its head down? A nail in your boot.
As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, the whole of a man, the half of a woman? A wom (?)
It was too short, I cut a bit off and made it longer? A grave.
The fiddler in Cork had a brother a fiddler in dublin but the fiddler in Dublin has no brother a fiddler in Cork? The answer is the fiddler in Cork is a girl.
Black I am but well admired. Men may be.. me till they are tired. They broke my back and spoiled my face and sent me from my dwelling place? The answer is coal.
What county would a burned out candle remind you of? Wicklow.
Why does a hen cross the road? Because the other side will not come over to her.
I have a little man up in the field, when I pull his leg, his nose will bleed?(continues on next page)
