School: Mainistir na Croise, Thurles (roll number 1811)
- Location:
- Holycross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Liam Ó Tuathaigh
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- (continued from previous page)she'll bite you? A Nettle.
If it took a yard of linen to line a cap what would it take to line a suit?
A tailor.
I have a little man standing in the field if you pull his leg his nose will bleed? A pump.
Ink ank under a bank ten drawn four? A woman milking a cow.
As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Thady I cut of his head and left his body easy? A head of cabbage.
What part of the cow goes over the ditch first? He breath.
Why does a cow look over the ditch?
Because she could'nt look under it.
As black as ink as white as milk and it hops on the ground like hailstones? A magpie.
What is it that is taken from you before you get it? Your Photo.
Patches on patches and without any stitches riddle me that and I'll give you a breeches? A head of cabbage.
Why is a pulled out tooth like a thing forgotten? Because it is out of the head.
