School: Court (roll number 13335)
- Location:
- Cúirt Bhaile Éamainn, Co. Loch Garman
- Teachers: Criostóir Ó Cuanáin Liam de Noraidh
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Nov. 19th 1938.Riddles.
What is black and white and read all over ?
Ans. A newspaper.
A little round and white house and it is full of meat. It has no doors or windows to let me in to eat ?
Ans. An egg.
Why is a flea so much like a train ?
Ans. Because it runs on sleepers.
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all ?
Ans. The moon or sun.
What part of a car goes into the town first ?
The noise.
As I went out in a slippery gap I met my Uncle Davy with iron nose and thimble toes upon my word he would frighten the crows ?
A gun.
A kitchen full and a room full and could not catch a spoonful ?
Smoke.
I have a little sister. She sits in the ditch every time you go near her. She would give you the itch.?
A nettle.
What part of a cow goes out in a gap first ?
The breath.Michael Byrne,
Ballyedmond,
Monamolin,
Gorey.
- Collector
- Michael Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Éamainn, Co. Loch Garman
