School: Monaseed (roll number 15937)
- Location:
- Monaseed, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Nioclás Ó Diomasaigh
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- RiddlesMrs Bigger, Mr Bigger and the baby, which of them all was the biggest?
The baby, because he was a little bigger.Why is a drawn tooth like something you have forgotten?
Because it is gone out of your head.What is taken from you before you get it?
Your photograph.What head can't get a hat to fit it?
Bray - Bray headWhy is the centre of a tree like a dog's tail?
Because it is farthest away from the barkWhat goes round the wood, and round the wood, and never gets into the wood?
The bark of a tree.Middy-noddy; round body,
Two feet, and a wooden hat.
A pot.Two very good servants, two very bad masters?
Fire and water.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Mulligan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Schoolchildren