School: Cora Caitlín (B.)
- Location:
- Newmarket on Fergus, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Mac Conmara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 047
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Riddles (Second Collection)(1)AS high as a wall ,as white as milk ,as red as blood ? (an apple)
(2) Twenty sick sheep went out a gap ,one died how many came back?.(19)
(12) Why is Sunday the strongest day in the week?(because all the others week days)
(4) It goes up the hill and down the hill ,and still it is on the hill?(A road)
(5)Three legs in the air ,and two on the ground.and the head of a living man in a dead man's mouth?
(a man carrying a pot in his head)
(6)Six tea-cups on a shelf -one fell how many were left .(5)
(7)It goes round the wood and round the wood and it never gets into the wood?(The bark of a Tree)
(8)As I looked out from the top window i saw the dead man carrying away the living ?(A ship carrying away(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seámus Ó Longaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Newmarket on Fergus, Co. Clare
