School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Baile an Mhuilinn, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 389
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- (continued from previous page)(17) What sleeps on its head all night? (A brush.)
(18) What flies and has no wings to fly? (A leaf)
(19) What wears boots and has no feet? (A football.)
Why does a hen pick a pot? (Because she can't lick it.)I got list of riddles from my father;-
Denis Curran,
Age 60 years Punchers Grange,
Droichead Nua,
Co. Kildare.
Signed:- Rose Curran.
- (1) If a peacock got up on a wall and laid an egg into another woman's garden, which would the woman that owned the garden or the woman that owned the peacock, own the egg? (Neither, for a peacock does not lay)
(2) What did God give to man that he did not give himself? (A beginning and an end)
(3) What is it we always see, a king seldom sees, and God never sees? (An Equal)
(4) "Father" said the child "how does it come that you are my father but I am not your son? (It was his daughter)
(5) Sisters and brothers I have none yet that(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nell Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gort an tSeabhaic, Co. Chill Dara
- Informant
- Thomas Maguire
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Gort an tSeabhaic, Co. Chill Dara
