School: Keelagh

Location:
Keelagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 055

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 055

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  1. 1. Forty sheep went through a gap a shepherd and his dog how many feet went through the gap?
    Two feet the rest were all paws.
    2. What is it that when you cut a bit of it you make it longer?
    A Grave.
    3. What has a head a foot and four legs?
    A bed.
    4. What is the shiest thing in the house.?
    The clock because it keeps its hands on its face.
    5. What goes round the wood and never goes into it?
    The bark of a tree.
    6. Why is a sailor a bad rider.?
    Because he rides on the main.
    7. What goes round the house and sleeps in corner at night?
    The twig
    8. What sleeps with its finger in its eye
    The crook?
    9. I have a little red cow tied against the wall give her much give her little and she will gobble up all, give her water and she will die give her wine and
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Charles Leonard
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mullalougher, Co. Cavan