School: Baile an Ghaorthaidh, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Ballingeary East, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó hAodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0569, Page 006
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- (continued from previous page)Because a black hen can lay a white egg and white hen cannot lay a black egg.
- RIDDLES I HAVE HEARD AT HOME
and which are not already written in this book1. The fiddler and his wife, and the
piper and his mother
and still there are only three of
them.
[The fiddlers wife was the piper’s
mother]2. What has a hundred coats?
[A head of cabbage]3. What part of a cow goes out the
gap first? [Her breadth]4. Room full and room full and you
could not get a spoonful. [Smoke]5. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a
rat, you may guess forever, but you
not guess that? [A pipe]6. As round as an apple, as plump as
a ball,
can climb the church, over steeple
and all. [The sun]7. One leg and a swelled head?
[A head of cabbage]8. How many horses’ tail would reach
the sky?
[One if it as long enough]9. If an egg rolled a mile a minute
how long would it take to go to
Clonmel?
You don’t know(continues on next page) - Collector
- Alice Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Decoy, Co. Tipperary
