School: Barrow (roll number 11850)
- Location:
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó hUallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 124
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- (continued from previous page)(10) It is neither inside the house nor outside teh house, and is on both sides of the house
Answer A window.
It is is in out it is like a trout it is slippery wet and greasy
Answer Your tongue
Riddle riddle ree such a riddle could not be, through a rock, through a reel, through the old spinning wheel, riddle me that.
Answer A flash
Why do a hen pick a pot
Answer because she could not lick it.
In Amsterdam, tis common, in Germany 'tis still. It is in all mountains but never in a hill.
Answer The letter "m".
Two n's two o's an l and a d put them together and spell it for me.
Answer London
A little while and round house and it is full of meat, and has no doors or windows let me in to eat
Answer An egg.
What goes up a ladder with it's head down
Answer A nail in a man's boot
- One boy goes behind a bush or behind some substantial thing, and the rest of the boys goes away in hide and if he does not catch anybody before they are back to the place where he was at first, he will have to go(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nioclás Ó Connaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
