School: Corra-bheagáin (roll number 12206)
- Location:
- Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Congamhna
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- (continued from previous page)24 Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you would not guess that. ans. "pipe"
25 What is it that always walks with its head down, ans. "nails of shoes"
26 Niddy, noddy, round body three feet and a wooden hat. ans. "a pot"
27. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches. ans. " a head of cabbage.
28 What goes round the wood and never gets into the wood, ans. "bark of a tree."
29 Over gravel I do travel, under sticks I do stand, I rode the mare that never foaled and carried the bridle in my hand. ans. "an engine driver"
30 What is full and holds more. ans. "pot of potatoes."
31. As I went in a gap I met a bunch of rods and no one could count them but the hunds of God. ans. "hair of head"
