School: Cohaw (C )
- Location:
- Cohaw, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ní Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 248
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- (1) What can we often hear but never see?
A passing remark.
(2) What is full and can hold more.?
A pot of potatoes.
(3) What sleeps with its finger in its eye.?
The crook.
(4) What never was nor never will be, look at your hand and you will plainly see.?
Your little finger not as long as your other fingers.
(5) What is too short and if you take a bit of it, it will be long enough.?
A grave.
(6) If it takes twenty minutes to bath a baby, what will it take to dry it.?
A towel.
(7) Yellow and red and gooslen green, the King couldn't touch it nor neither the Queen, but the Pope and his robes could touch it aor sooner so riddle me that from morn till noon.?
The rainbow.
(8) What is it, that goes round the house and stand out-side at night.?
The twig.
(9) Patches and patches without any stitches, riddle me that and I will give you my britches.?(continues on next page)
