School: Mc Kelvey's Grove (roll number 9130)
- Location:
- Loughbrattoge, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Eva Campbell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 253
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- How many legs would a sheep have, if you called its tail a leg ?
Four legs for calling the tail a leg does not make it a leg.
Forty sheep went through a gap, forty more after that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how many is that ?
Five.
What has a tongue and cannot talk ?
Your boot.
Through a rock, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel, through a bag of pepper, through a miller's hopper, through a sheep's shank bone, such a riddle as this was never known ?
A worm.
A jumper of ditches, a clipper of thorns a wee brown cow with two leather horns ?
A hare.
Why does a river run ?
Because it cannot walk.
What never was nor never will be look in your hand and you will plainly see ?
That the fingers will never be all the same length.
- Collector
- Albert Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Drollagh, Co. Monaghan
