School: Ferbane (B.)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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- A riddle, a riddle, a farmer's fiddle,
Alive in two ends and dead in the middle.?
A man ploughing
What has pains (panes) and is never sick?
A window.
Patch upon patch without any stitches, Riddle me that and I will buy you a breeches?
A head of cabbage.
A leaper of ditches, a cropper of corn.
A tidy young fellow with two leather horns?
A rabbit
As I looked out through my grandfather's window I heard the roar of a dead car; his head made of flesh and his mouth made of horn, and such an old creature I never saw born?
A cock crowing.
What can go up a chimney down,
and it can't go up a chimney up?
An umbrella.
Why does a cow look over a wall?
Because she can't look under it.(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Brazil
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrica More, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Charles Brazil
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrica More, Co. Offaly