School: Cor na Péiste
- Location:
- Cornapaste, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Théinfhir
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- (continued from previous page)41. What is the strongest thing in the world?
(A snail. He carries his house on his back.)42. Why is a train like a flea?
(Both run over sleepers)43. What flies high, flies low, has no feet, but wears out shoes?
(Dust.)44. Black I am, and fair of face. They tore my hair and scratched my face, and took me from my dwelling place?
(A sod of turf).45. I sat on my honkers, and looked through my winkers, and saw the dead burying the live?
(A person covering up a fire with ashes - raking it - for the night.)46. A word of five letters I am. Come riddle me out if you can. My first and last are alike, I declare, My second and my fourth alike are a pair. Cut heads & cut tails, I am also a name. Spelt backwards and forwards I am always the same. The test I will leave to my carpenter friend, who oftimes takes hold of me to accomplish his end
(Level).47. What French word contains all the vowels but only one consonant?
(Oiseau.)48. What stand on one leg and has its heart in the middle?
(A cabbage-head).49. What is it that is neither flesh nor bone,(continues on next page)
