School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)58. A wee white round house, full of food, and no windows.?. An egg.
59. Long legs, and short thighs, a small head, and no eyes?. A pair of tongs.
60. Why is Ireland like a bottle.?. Because it has a cork in it.
61. The cup that cheers, but not inebriates.?. Tea.
62. Who was born before his mother, and died before his father?. Cain.
63. Black and white and read all over?. The newspaper.
64. Riddle me, riddle me andy O, my father gave me seed to sow, the seed was black and the ground was white, if you tell me this riddle, I'll buy you a clay pipe?. Ink and paper.
65. The garden was made, a beautiful maid far fairer than the flowers of the morning, the first hour of her life, she was made a wife, and she died before she was born.?. Eve.
66. Adam in his age, rocking in his cage, all his family dead and gone, and yet he is living still.?. An apple tree.
67. Why does a cow go over a hill.?. Because she can't go under it.(continues on next page)
