School: Carnalassan (roll number 6106)
- Location:
- Carrownalassan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Eoghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)wall. She drinks all she gets, and eats none at all?
A lamp.
41 It's deep, it's damp, it's green over bank and it's fit for lord or lady?
A grave.
42. What's better than heaven or worse than hell, can any young solver the right answer tell?
Nothing.
43 If there was a number of birds flying together, one in front and one behind, one each side and one in front. How many were there?
There were three, because they were changing.
44. How many spools would it take to reach the sun?
One if it were long enough.
45. Headed like a thimble
Tailed like a rat
You may guess for ever
But you couldn't guess that?
A pipe.
46. What goes round the wood, and round the wood and never goes into the wood.
The bark of a tree.
47. What have six eyes and yet cannot see?
Three blind mice
48. Flour of Ireland
Fruit of Spain
Met together in a shower of rain
Put in a bag tied with a string
Riddle me this and I'll give you a ring?
A plump pudding.
49. A duck before two ducks, a duck behind two ducks, a duck in the middle between two ducks, how many ducks were in it?
Three ducks.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Grange, Co. Roscommon
