School: Gallen
- Location:
- Gallen, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T.R. Goodwin
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Riddles
(1) A round house full of meat and has no door to let me in to eat?
An egg.
(2) What would you fill a barrel with to make it lighter?
With holes
(3) The more you take out of it the bigger it gets.?
A hole in a wall
(4) What pie can you not eat?
A magpie!
(5) How would you break a bottle in an empty sack.?
You could not break a bottle in an empty sack, because the sack would not be empty if there was a bottle in it
(6) What would make more noise under a gate than a pig.?
Two pigs.?
(7) What stick does not grow in a wood.
A candle stick.?
(8) How is it that a hen picks a pot.?
Because she cannot lick it.?
(9) What part of a cow goes out in a gap first.?(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maureen Devery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Noggusduff, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs M. Devery
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Noggusduff, Co. Offaly