School: Tara Hill (roll number 13689)
- Location:
- Cill Chaomháin, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Fhlannchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0888, Page 073
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- 73Riddles.Q_. Four legs up and four legs down soft in the middle and hard all round.
Ans_. A bed.
Q_. Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you will never guess that.
Ans_. A pipe.
Q_. I have a little steel horse with a white flaxy tail the quicker he goes the shorter his tail grows.
Ans_. A needle and thread.
Q In comes four legs picks up one leg up stands two legs whips up three legs knocked down four legs and brings a leg back.
Ans_. A dog taking a leg of mutton.
Q Forty sheep went through a gap forty more followed that, a man and a dog went after that how many feet went through the gap.
Ans_. Two feet.
Q_. As I was going through a gap I met my uncle David. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body easy.
Ans_. A bottle of wine.
Q_. Around the wood and around the wood and never enters the wood.(continues on next page)
