School: Fuerty (roll number 16162)
- Location:
- Fuerty, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Freathaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0264, Page 012
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- (continued from previous page)A. The road.
Q. What is black and white and read all over?
A. A paper.
Q. Flies high, flies low, has no shoes but wears some?
A. A football.
Q. What goes out between two woods and comes back between two waters?
A. A man fetching water in pails.
Q. What stick does not grow in a wood?
A. A candlestick.
Q. What man is always making faces?
A. A clockmaker.
Q. Hard working father, lazy old mother, twelve little children all the one colour. What it it?
A. A clock.
Q. Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches?
A. A head of cabbage.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brian Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fuerty, Co. Roscommon