School: Bredagh Glen (roll number 14635)
- Location:
- Bredagh Glen, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 118
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- Q. If a woman went into a shop and bought thirty yards of cloth and if she cut off a yard every year how long would it take her to cut off them all?
A. Twenty nine years.
Q. What goes round and round the house and lays an egg in every hole?
A. Hailstones.
Q. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of britches?
A. A cabbage.
Q. Hairy out and hairy in all hair and no skin?
A. A stocking
Q. What is it that is full all day and empty at night?
A. A shoe.
Q. A hard working father a lazy old mother twelve little children all the same colour?
A. A clock or watch
Q. What is it that has a head and no face?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Ní Barr
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal
