School: Rahan (B.)
- Location:
- Rahan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: L. Ó Reannacháin
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- Riddles.
(1) Every thing has it and so has a needle?
-a name.
(2) As I walked out into a field of wheat I saw something that I could eat, it was neither fish, flesh nor bone and I left it there until it walked alone?
-An egg.
(3) How far can you go into a wood.
-To the middle
(4) It is in the field when we are cutting the meadow and we can't cut it. It is in the shop window and we can't sell it?
-The sun.
(5) What part of the cow goes out in the gap first?
-Her breath.
(6) If Ireland is the capital of England and if England is the capital of Ireland, if a man commited suicide in Belfast, where would he be hung?
-He killed himself.
(7) Did you ever see haf a pigs head with two eyes.(continues on next page)