School: Rochfortbridge (B.) (roll number 1122)
- Location:
- Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Rowan
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Riddles.
What is it always walks with its head down? A nail in your boot.
Middy noddy round, body, three feet and a wooded hat? A pot.
What goes away above the ground, and returns under it? A man with sods on his head.
What goes away between two woods and comes home between two waters? A man fetching water in pails.
One half dead, the other half living and a tail wagging? A dog with his head in a pot.
Headed like a thimble , tailed like a rat, You may guess forever, but you wouldn't guess that? A pipe.
What goes round the wood ,round the wood and never goes into the wood? The bark of the tree.
What part of a cow goes out on a gap first? Her breath.
What is louder than a pig squealing under a gate? Two pigs. Martin Corrigan.
Gortumloe, Rochfortbridge
I got the information from my father. age 50
- Collector
- Martin Corrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortumly, Co. Westmeath
