School: Farnham
- Location:
- Farnham, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Magahy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0975, Page 178
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“There are a large number of local riddles told around this district”
(continued from previous page)Q A little white and round house and in it full of meat but has no doors or windows to let me in to eat
A. An egg.
Q. Little Miss Etticoat in her white petticoat the longer she stands the shorter she gets.
A. A candle.
Q. Hairy all over and hard in the skin two big ears flopping while the dough is going in.
A. A pig eating.
Q. 3/7 of a chicken the 2/3 of a cat and the half of a goat.
A Chicago
Q. When does a talkative women hold her jaw.
A When she has the toothache.
Q. He killed his own mother niover obeyed his father married his own sister and never committed sin.
A A priest.
Q. How many peas in a pint
A One (P.)
Q. You drink, you eat deny it who can I am sometimes a woman sometimes a man
A Toast
Q What bird canlift the heaviest weights
A The crane
Q. What trade is a minister at a wedding
A A joiner
Q. Why is a pair of skates like an apple.
A Because they have both caused the fall of man.