School: Knockaville (roll number 14185)
- Location:
- Knockaville, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 386
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- RiddlesAs round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other a man? A penny.
What sleeps with its head down? A broom.
It is neither inside nor outside and it is very useful to the house? A window.
What is the shyest thing in the house: A clock.
How many feet has forty sheep a shepherd and his dog? Two.
Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a k? That.
As I went out in a field of wheat I met something that I could eat it was neither fish, flesh, fowl or bone and I kept it till it walked alone: Egg.
Why does a cow look over a wall? Because she can't look under it.
What goes up a ladder with its head down?
A nail in a man's boot.
A hard working father, a lazy mother and twelve black children: A clock.
What goes round the house and sleeps in the corner at night? A brush.
What goes round the house and draging a harrow after it? A hen and chickens.(continues on next page)
