School: Cros Riabhach
- Location:
- Crossreagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Siordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 353
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- Here are riddles I heard in Clonmacmara
1) Why is a dog like a tree?
2) Why can a man with one eye see
3) more than a man with two?
4) How many sticks make a crow's nest?
5) Two feet: no hands: against the apple tree it stands?
6) What would make more noise than an old sow at an iron gate?
7) Why does a cow look over a ditch?
8) As I went out a gap: I met my uncle Davy: I split his skull and drank his blood and left him lying easy?
9) What is that you get when you are not looking for it and when you are looking for it you cannot get it?
10) What is it that goes round and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night?
11) As I looked out on my wonderful window, I saw a wonderful thing The dead carrying the live?
12) Spell "a blind pig" in two letters?
- Collector
- Thomas Cumisky
- Gender
- Male
