School: Na Tearmoinn (B.) (roll number 8931)
- Location:
- Tarmon East, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathaláin
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- (continued from previous page)Answer: Halfways.Twenty four white standing on a hill; there they go, there they go, there they go still.
Answer: Your teeth.Why does a cow look over a ditch?
Answer: Because she can't look under it.The man that made it never wore it, but the man that wore it never saw it?
Answer: A coffin.What is it that is most like half a a moon?
Answer: The other half.If you were on the top of a house and fell, what would you fall against?
Answer: Your will.As black as ink, as white as snow and it hops on the road like hail stones?
Answer: A magpie.What is it that is full and holds more?
Answer: A pot of potatoes - it will hold water.What is it that the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
Answer: A hole.Mary with the white petticoat, Mary with the red nose; the longer she lives, the shorter she grows?
Answer: A candle.As I went out, before I came in, out of the dead the live did spring. No trees did shake, no leaves did fall, and that's my riddle among you all?
Answer: A bird's nest in a skull.What is it that goes with a car - the car doesn't want it but still it cannot go.(continues on next page)
