School: Roundwood

Location:
Roundwood, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Peadar Réamonn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0918, Page 027

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0918, Page 027

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  1. What goes up a ladder with its head down? A nail in a mans boot.
    Why is an engine driver so much like a schoolmaster? One minds the trading and the other trains the mind.
    What has a head but cannot move it? A pin.
    Why did the boy call his rooster Robinson? Because he crew so (Crusoe).
    Why is it useless to give a horse food?
    Because he cannot eat a bit.
    When will water stop running down hill? When it reaches the bottom.
    When is a horse not a horse? When he is turned into a field.
    Who was the first whistler and what was his tune? The Wind when it whistled "Over the Hills and far away".
    What English word contains three vowels three syllables and only four letters. Idea.
    Forty sheep went through a gap, forty sheep followed that, a shepherd and his dog
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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
    Patrick Brennan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr Matthew Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Roundwood, Co. Wicklow