School: Clinstown (roll number 4193)
- Location:
- Clintstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: S. Ó Dúnlaing
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- (continued from previous page)A. Because it can fit in a bottle.Q. Spell the red rogue of the world in three letters?
A. F o x.
Q. Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that, and I'll buy you a pair of breeches?
A. A head of cabbage.Q. Twenty sick (six) sheep went out in a gap, one fell dead, how many came back?
A. Nineteen.Q. Old Mother Hubbard, she has but one eye, she has a long tail which she lets fly, and every time she goes out in a gap, a bit of her tail gets caught in a trap?
A. A needle and thread. - 3.
Q. The more you cut off of it the longer it gets?
A. A grave.Q. Black I am and much admired, many a man and horse I tired, gold and silver I have cost and now on the dung hill I am tossed?
A. Colm.Q. Ink, ank, under the bank ten drawing four?
A. A woman milking a cow.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Connery
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Kilkenny