School: Talbhain (Irish Wastelands Society) (roll number 4013)
- Location:
- Knockmoyle East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Fhearghail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0184
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- On riddles
These are riddles I heard at home
What is black and white and red all over? A newspaper,
Three feet and no leg? A yard
What would fight a bull and fight a bear and would conquer all the birds in the air.? Hunger,
The man that made it did not want it the man that bought it did not use and the man that used it did not see it? A coffin.
What is deeper than the sea? A tailors thimble.
As white as milk and milk it isn't as green as grass and grass it isn't as red as a rose and a rose it isn't as black as ink and ink and ink it isn't? A blackberry.
A man without eyes went out to view the sky. he saw apples on a tree he neither took apples or left apples and how could that be?
He did not take apples he only took one and he had one eye?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Fahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockmoyle West, Co. Galway
