School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)A jumper of ditches
A cropper of thorns
A tiny little fellow
With two leather horns?
(Answer):- A rabbit.
What is the difference between a hearth rug and a bottle of medicine?
(Answer):- One is taken up and shaken. The other is shaken up and taken.
What is it when you pull its tail its nose will bleed?
(Answer) A pump
Patch upon patch without any stitches
Riddle me that, and I will buy you a pair of breeches?
(Answer):-A head of cabbage
Long legs, short thighs
Little head, and no eyes.
(Answer):- A tongs
What is it, that its neck is never full?
(Answer):- A chimney.(continues on next page)
