School: Muclach
- Location:
- Mucklagh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)Tullamore
Age 40 years - Riddles 23-11-'37What is it that has a head a foot and four legs?
A bed.
What is it that flies high, flies low and wears out the soles of your shoes?
Dust.
What is it that is full of holes yet holds water?
A sponge.
What poet was never slow?
Swift.
What is it that feet but no legs?
A yard ruler.
What bus gives room to most people?
Columbus.
If you fell off a wall what would you fall against?
Your will.
A leaper of ditches a clapper of thorns a tiny fellow with two leather horns?
A rabbit.
Why is the letter F so much like a cow's tail?
Because it is the end of beef.Collected by:-
Lily Boylan,
St. O'Hara,
Tullamore. Age 12 years- Collector
- Lily Boylan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Saint O'Hara's Hill, Co. Offaly