School: Naomh Pádraig, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13265)
- Location:
- Saint Patrick's, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Br. Seosamh Mac Aodhgáin
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- Riddles
Andy Coughlan, 67 Walkin Street, Kilkenny
I heard the following riddles at home from my father ( 36 years) and mother. (35 years)1. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood? The bark of a tree.2. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you can guess for ever but you won't guess that. A pipe.3. When were there only two vowels?
In the time of Noah, which was before "U" and "I" were born.4. What is as bad as a hen stealing? A cock robin.5. Why are seeds, planted in the sod, like a gate-post? They both propagate.6. What is the difference between a camera and the measles? One makes fac-similes and the other makes sick families.7. What walks miles and miles and has a tongue and never talks? A boot.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Andy Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Walkin Street, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr Coughlan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Walkin Street, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Coughlan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Walkin Street, Co. Kilkenny