School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)would have one half of a herring eaten?
Eat the other half.As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the King's horses would not pull it up?
A spring well.As round as an apple the shape, of a pear, split in the middle and covered with hair?
Your eye.Riddle me riddle me randeo my father gave me seed to sow; the seed was black and the ground was white, riddle me that again to morrow night?
Ink and paper.Can you tell me when it is going to rain?
When it starts.What is gone and it is never gone?
Your name.Why is a dog's tail like the heart of a tree?
Because both are far away from the bark.What goes round the wood, and round the wood but never goes into the wood?
The bark of a tree.Why was a cow's tail never seen before?
Because it was always seen behind.What goes up a ladder with its head downwards?
A nail in your boot.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Shannan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Sheil
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
