School: Dún Flainn (roll number 9669)
- Location:
- Doonflin Upper, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maolagáin
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- Riddles
1. What is full and can hold more?
Answer: A pot of potatoes (holds water).
2. Brown am I and much admired, many horses I have tired, tire a horse and worry a man and tell me that if you can.
Answer: A horse's saddle.
3. Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches.
Answer: A head of cabbage.
4. Head like a thimble, tail like a rat, riddle me that and I will say you are smart.
Answer: A pipe.
5. I have a little horse with his back to the wall. He would eat all the straw from here to Donegal and if I give him water he wouldn't live at all.
Answer: A fire.
6. I have a little horse with an iron throat, as quick as he gallops he swallows the rope and every time he goes out a gap, he leaves a piece of his tail after him.
Answer: A spinning wheel.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Davis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leekfield, Co. Sligo