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School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)

Location:
Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Q: Pieces and patches without any stitches, riddle me that and I will give you my breeches
    A: A head of cabbage
    Q: What is the biggest bridge in the world
    A: The rainbow
    Q: What is the smallest bridge in the world
    A: The bridge of your nose
    Q: A hard working father, a wee lazy mother, twelve little children just like one another
    A: A block
    Q: A lovely lovely ornament. When it's bought it's never lent. Those who buy it never use it and those for whom it is bought cannot refuse it.
    A: A coffin.
    Q: When is a postage stamp like a school boy?
    A: When he is licked and put in a corner.
    Q: Which man in the Dail wears the biggest hat
    A: The man with the biggest head
    Q: There it is there with a lip on it
    A: The crook
    Q: There is a thing in this house with as many windows on it as there is on a lord's
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Faughnan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim