School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- (continued from previous page)the middle, now can you guess this silly riddle.
A. An umbrella.Information from
Mrs Butler
Croughnagarraha. - R. What is the difference between a blind man and a sailor
A. A sailor goes to sea and a blind man cannot see to go
R. What is the longer it lives the shorter it grows
A. A candle
R. As round as a marble as deep as a cup and all the kings horses could not pull it up
A. A well.
R. Its black and white and red all over.
A. A news paper
R. What has a head and cannot get a hat to fit it?
A. A match.
R. What is it that is full in the day and empty at night?
A. A shoe
R. Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four
A. A woman milking a cow
R. What is the loudest thingin the world
A. A candle because it wakes the dead
R. How many sides has a bucket(continues on next page)- Informant
- Patrick Rockett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary