School: Carrickaslane (roll number 365)
- Location:
- Carrickaslane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mary Greer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 242
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1 How many nebs dose a hen give before she has enough eaten.
Answer. Only one as a hen has but the one neb.
2. As I went up shiver hill shiver hill was shaking. All the birds in shiver hill were flying in an acre.
Answer. A Harrow.
3 It is red, and it is white, and it is gosling green. The king cannot touch it no more than the Queen the birds of the air could touch it as soon. Riddle me that from morning till noon.
Answer. A Rainbow
If it took a yard and a half of buttermilk to make a coat and pair of trousers for an elephant what would it take to make the whole suit.
Answer The waistcoat
If it took a rat a fortnight to walk through a barrel of tar with a pair of Wellingtons on it, how long would it take a carpenter to make a table out of a whinbrush
Answer: None of them can be doneLong legs crocked thighs,
Wie head, no eyes.
Answer. Tongs.
