School: Knockaville (roll number 14185)
- Location:
- Knockaville, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 388
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- (continued from previous page)RiddlesIt comes in on the backs of people and goes out as fine as silk. Turf.
Twenty sick (six) sheep went out a gap one died how many were left. (19)
How does a tailor's thimble resemble the ocean? (it is bottomless.)
I have a little house
It wouldn't fit a mouse
It has as many windows
As the Lord Mayor's house. A Thimble.
If a fellow met a fellow in a fellow's field. Could a fellow tell a fellow what a fellow feels. How many f's in that. No f in that.
A little man standing by a hedge
He eats all he gets but he doesn't drink water.
A fire.
As I went up a boreen I met my Aunteen Noreen,
Steel toes, iron nose and upon my word She'ld frighten the crows. A gun.
On what toe does a corn never grow? Mistletoe.
What's most like a horse's shoe? His other one.
Long legs, small thighs, little head and no eyes. A tongs.
What is taken from you before you get it?
Your photograph.
