School: Lisboduff
- Location:
- Lisboduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Fitzsimons
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- Riddle -: Riddle me riddle me randy ro my father gave me seed to sow the seed was black the ground was white. Riddle me that and I will give you a pipe.
Answer -: Ink and paper.
Riddle:- As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Derry would not pull it up
Answer -: A well
Riddle-: When is a schoolboy like a postage stamp.
Answer : When he is licked and put in a corner to make him stick to his letters
Riddle-: What is the difference between a public house and a woman's mouth
Answer -: The public house closes at ten oclock and the woman's mouth never closes.
Riddle-: What goes over the hill and never comes back.
Ans-: A path
Riddle -: Blackie and white went over the hill, blackie came back but white stood still.
Ans -: A hen after laying an egg
Riddle -: What is the smallest bridge in the world
Ans -: The bridge of your nose
Riddle -: When is a butcher a thorough thief
Ans- : When he steals a knife and cuts away with it(continues on next page)
