School: Lios Dubh (1) (roll number 14779)
- Location:
- Lisduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Philip Mc Guiness
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- Patch upon patch without any stitches if you riddle me that. I'll buy you a pair of breeches
Answer Cabbage-head
A byre full, a barn full, but couldn't an armful
Answer Smoke
Why is an orange like a bell. Answer. Because they both peel.
As round as an apple, as deep as all the men in Derry wouldn't lift it up.
Answer. A well.
As black as ink as white as milk, ink nor milk it isn't, hops on the road like a marble stone, and a marble stone it isn't. Answer. A mag.
Long legs short thighs, little head and as eyes Ans. Tongs
Round the house and round the house, and leaves a loaf in ver window. Answer. Snow.
Useless, useless instrument a thing thats bought and always lent. The man that buys it its not his own, but the man who wants to bring it home. Answer. Coffin.
Head like thimble tail like a rat, if you guess for ever you will never guess that. Ans. pipe.
King George built a ship and in that ship his daughter sits an I'll be slain if I tell her name and that's three times I've told it. Ans. Ann- Collector
- Bridget Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Leitrim