School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 246
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- (continued from previous page)in a shower of rain. Put in a bag tied round with a string, if you tell me this riddle I'll give you a ring.?. A plum pudding.
36. When is a race horse like a waiter.?.
When he runs for stakes and plates.
37. Why is a hen sitting on a gate like a penny.?. Because her tail is on one side, and her head on the other.
38. Did you ever see a duck swimming across a lake, and a cat sitting on her tail?.
39. What goes over the hill, and never comes back again.?. A path.
40. Blackie and whitie went over the hill, blackie went on, and whitie sat still?. A hen laying a white egg.
41 What part of a cow goes into the byre first?. Her breath.
42. What is the centre of gravity.?. The letter v.
43. What is short and you cut a bit off to make it longer.?. A grave.
44. What is bought, and never lent, when it is broken, it is never mended, those who buy it do not use it, and those who get it do not refuse it.? A coffin.
45. What wears boots out, and it has not a pair itself?. A football.(continues on next page)
