School: Pollréamoinn (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Pollremon, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Duibhghiolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0014, Page 127
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- (continued from previous page)5. What can turn without stirring.
Answer: Milk into cream.
6. A big black woman and a small black man twelve small children as black as a pan. Answer: the face of a clock.
7. It opens like a barn door it shuts like a trap. Answer: An umbrella.
8. Patch to patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a breeches. Answer: A head of cabbage.
9. Ink and under the bank ten drawn four. Answer: a woman milking a cow
10. Why does a cow look over the ditch. Answer: Because she cannot look under it.
11. What part of a cow goes in the stable first. Answer: her breath.
12. A little white and rerun house and it is full of meat and it has no doors or windows to let me in to eat. Answer: an egg.
13. IN a garden there lay a beautiful maid as fair and as fresh as the morn the first day of her life(continues on next page)
