School: Tobar Rua (roll number 15427)
- Location:
- Toberroe East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Mhuireagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)Riddle me, riddle me I suppose a hundred eyes and never a nose. A sieve.
Q. Eight arms but no hand a wooden leg which cannot stand, its often wet but cannot feel it has no arms but clad with steel. A dress of silk with a belt around the middle now can you guess that silly riddle? An umbrella.
Q. As black as soot but soot it isn't; as white as milk but milk it isn't; it hops on the road like a marble stone but a marble stone it isn't. A Magpie.
Q. One iron sheep with a woollen tail? A needle with a woollen thread in it.
Q As I went out a gap I saw a great wonder 3 pots boiling and no fire under. A spring well.
Q. A riddle, a riddle a farmer's fiddle alive in two ends and dead in the middle? A plough.
Q. Two maidens dressed in white got a fever and died in the night? Two candles.
Q. Why does a hen pick a pot. Because she can't lick it.
Q. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup all the men in Ireland wouldn't fill it up? a well.
Q. What four letters frighten a thief?
O, I, C, Y (Oh! I see you)
Q. Brown I am, much admired, many the horse I have tired; tired the horse, wearied the man(continues on next page)
