School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)
- Location:
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 288
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- (continued from previous page)Ans. All the rest.4/ Which is the greatest riddle?
Ans. Life, for we all have to give it up.5/ Born at the same time as the world destined to live as long as the world, yet never five weeks old?
Ans. The moon.6/ Which is the swifter, heat or cold?
Ans. Heat, because any one can catch cold.7/ Why does a clock never strike thirteen?
Ans. Because it has not the face to do so.8/ What is the difference between a tree and an aroplane?
Ans. The tree sheds its leaves and the aroplane leaves its sheds.9/ As I went up my grand-father's gap I met a gassoon with a red cap a stick in his back a stone in his belly riddle me that and I will give you a penny?
Ans. A haw.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thommie Flood
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Murrens, Co. Meath
