School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)
- Location:
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Conghaile
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- (continued from previous page)17. I had but one sister she was Peepity Peep. She would go over the mountain that was ever so high, she would go under the sea that was ever so deep; my poor little sister had but one eye.
Answer: A star.
18. Queen Victoria built a ship an' in that ship her daughter sat and I'll be blamed to tell her name an' that three times I told her name. What is her name?
Answer: Anne.
19. As round as an apple as deep as a pail. It never cries out until you tug its tail.
Answer: A bell.
20. It's long, it's narrow, it's not very wide, it wears a green ribbon on every side.
Answer: A road.
21. What is it a dead man eats and if a live man ate it he would to die
Answer: Nothing.
22. I have a wee horse tied to the wall, he wants as much fodder as from here to Donegal.
Answer: A fire.
23. What are more plenty in a sand-riddle than holes?
Answer: Corners.
24. What is it we all have, but few of us hold?
Answer: Our tongue.
25. A round thing, a soft thing, yet a hard thing, a useful thing, yet nothing?
Answer: An egg.(continues on next page)
