School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What is it that the more you take from it the longer it grows?
A. A grave.Q. Why is a policeman like a rainbow?
A. Because he generally appears after a storm.Q. Why does a miller wear a white hat?
A. To cover his head.Q. What is it that everything has and a needle has it too?
A. A name.Q. Who wears the biggest hat?
A. The man with the biggest head.Q. What is it that always walks on its head?
A. A nail in your shoe.Q. Why does a hen pick the pot?
A. Because she cannot lick it.Q. A man was to be hanged, but if he could give a riddle to the judge which he couldn't solve, he would be set free. Having been told by Daniel O' Connell what to say, he went on his journey and said:–
As I roved out the day I came in,
Out of the dead the live did spring.
Six were there and the seventh came free.
If you riddle me that, you may hang me.
A. A bird's nest in a dead cow's head.(continues on next page)