School: Matehy, Inniscarra
- Location:
- Saint Ann's Hill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0347, Page 208
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- 1. Question:- Middy - noddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat.
Answer:- a pot
2. Question:- What is it always walkes with its head down.
Answer:- A nail in your boot.
3. Q:- Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that.
A:- a pipe.
4. Q:- Patch upon patch without any stitches. Riddel me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches?
A:- A cabbage.
5. Q:- What's full and holds more?
A:- A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
6. Q:- Why is a marriage a failure?
A:- Because the bride doesn't marry the best man.
7. Q:- One half dead; the other half living and a tail wagging.
A:- A dog with its head in a pot.
8. Q:- What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
