School: Knocktopher (roll number 7033)
- Location:
- Derrynahinch, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Éil
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- (continued from previous page)Little Miss Etticoat dancing in a white petticoat. The longer she lives the shorter she grows?
Ans. A candle.Flour of Ireland, fruit of Spain met together in a shower of rain. Put in a bag tied up with a string, if you riddle me that I will give you a ring?
Ans. A plum pudding.As round as an apple, as deep as a cup but all the men in Ireland could not dig it up?
Ans. A well.Who was the first whistler?
Ans. the windWhat is it that we often return but never borrow?
Ans. Thanks.What is always cut and never eaten?
Ans. A pack of cards.What is the hardest riddle of all?
Ans. The riddle of life.If a man fell off a house what would he fall against?
Ans. His willWhat goes around the floor all day and sleeps in the corner at night?
Ans. A brush.Why is e like the close of day?
Ans. Because it is the beginning of evening.What is full of holes and holds water?
Ans. A sponge.(continues on next page)