School: Cor Liath (2) (roll number 14380)
- Location:
- Corlea, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Róise Ní Dhéaghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 148
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"Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I'll buy you a new pair of breeches?"
A head of cabbage.
What goes up the ladder and down the ladder with its head down?
A nail in your boot.
"Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that?"
A pipe.
In a court yard there was a row of benches and on the benches there was a crowd of people and there wasn't a single person there.
They were all married.
Niddy, noddy round body, three feet and a wooden hat?
A pot.
What goes from house to house and never goes into the house?
A path.
What goes from Dublin to Belfast without stopping?
The road.
Up, high, down, low, wears boots and has none?
A house full, a room full couldn't catch a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gertie Mitchell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantonagh, Co. Monaghan
