School: Conaithe an Aonaigh
- Location:
- Conna, Co. Cork
- Teacher: S. Ó Ciosáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0380, Page 062
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- What goes all round the house and stops at the back door? Answer - Sweeping brush.
How many steps in Jacob's ladder? Answer - Three, What are they? Answer - Faith, Hope and Charity.
In a house there is a cup, in the cup there is a sup and everyone must taste it? Answer - Death.
The man that made it never wore it, and the man that wears it never sees it? Answer - A Coffin
A head like a timble, a tail like a rat, you can guess for ever but you will never guess that? Answer - A pipe.
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all? Answer - The sun.
What always walks with it's head down? Answer - A nail in a man's boot.
Spell grandly with four letters? Answer - G R and L Y
Patches upon patches without any stitches, riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of britches? Answer - Head of cabbage
As I was going to Saint Ives, I met three men and their wives, each man had a sack each sack had a cat each cat had a kitten. How many sacks cats kittens and all were going to St Ives? Answer - myself(continues on next page)
