School: Valleymount

Location:
Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 147

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 147

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    Because she cannot look under it.
    9. What is it that flies high, lies low, wears boots and has none? A football.
    10. Why is a horse that is constantly hidden, and never fed, not likely to be starved? Because he always has a bit in his mouth.
    11. How many sticks go to the building of a crows nest? None because they are all carried to it.
    12. Why do little birds in their nests agree? Because if they did not they would fall out.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 1. Look at a nail and flesh on it?
    The nail of your finger.
    2. Long legs, short thighs, little head , and no eyes?
    A fire tongs.
    3. Hinky hanky, under a bank, ten drawing four?
    A person milking a cow.
    4. Little Nancy edditcot, sitting in a red petticoat, the longer she stands the shorter she grows?
    A candle.
    5. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman, the half of a man?
    A penny.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Perry
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Tulfarris, Co. Wicklow