School: Tubbercurry (B.) (roll number 15574)
- Location:
- Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Peadar Mc Donagh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 293
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- (continued from previous page)Question. a jeweller and a jailor?
Answer. One sells watches and the other watches cells.
Question. Which is the oldest wine you get?
Answer. The elder wine.
Question. What is it that gets wet with drying?
Answer. A Towel.
Question Its over the coals, and under the coals and it never touches the coals?
Answer. A cake in an oven.
Question. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup and all the men in Londonderry wouldn't lift it up?
Answer. A well.
Question. Patch upon patch without any stitches,
Riddle me that and i'll buy you a pair of breeches.?
Answer A head of cabbage.
Question Why does a hen pick a pot?
Answer. Because she cannot lick it.
Riddles collected by the children and written here by George Molloy, pupil.
- Collector
- George Molloy
- Gender
- Male
