School: Kinnitty
- Location:
- Kinnitty, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 335
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- RiddlesQ. I know a little house and a mouse could not sit in it and all the men in the town could not count all the windows in it.
A. A thimble.Q. What is it flies high, flies low, wears boots and had none.
A. A football.Q. What is if if you mention it you break it.
A. Silence.Q. What goes around the wood and round wood and never goes into the wood.
A. The bark of a tree.Q. Why does a hen pick a pot.
A. Because she cannot lick it.Q. What is the shortest way to get from France to Dover.
A. Cross off the D and you are over.Q. What are the three hardest things to be got in the world.
A. A boot for the foot of a mountain. A towel to wipe the face of the earth, and a sheet for the bed of the ocean.Q. Which is the largest room int he world.
A. The room for improvement.Q. What goes up a mountain still it never moves.
A. A road.Q. What is the hardest key to turn.
A. The don-Key.Q. What fish cannot swim in salt water?
A. A dead fish.Q. A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat you may guess for ever but you can't guess that.
A. A pipe.(continues on next page)
