School: Baile an Ghaorthaidh, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Ballingeary East, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó hAodha
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- RIDDLES I HAVE HEARD AT HOME
[Answers in brackets]
1. What turns without moving?
[Milk]2. As I went up a steeple, I met three
Christian people.
They were neither men, women, or
children.
What were they?
[A man, woman, and child.]3. Why does a hen pick a pot?
[Because she cannot lick it]4. Why does a cow look over a fence? [Because she could not look under it.]5. When is a horse not a horse?
[When he is turned into a field.]6. When is a black dog not a black
dog?
[When it is a greyhound.]7. A little red heifer hanging on a wall,
drinks all she can and eats nothing
at all.
[A lamp.]
8. What is the best butter in the world?
[A good hefty goat.]9. Patch upon patch without any
stitches,
riddle me that and I’ll give you boy
breeches.
[A head of cabbage.]- Collector
- Teresa O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Husseystown, Co. Tipperary