School: Blacklion
- Location:
- Blacklion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Johnston
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- Riddles No.5
1 What full and will hold more?
A pot of potatoes when you pour water on.
2 How many hairs in a dogs tail?
None.
3 As round as an apple as plump as a ball?
A bubble.
4 Patch upon patch without any stitches?
A head of cabbage.
5 What walks with its head down?
A nail in a man's boot.
6 What goes round the wood and never enters it?
The bark of a tree.
7 Why is a horse wiser than a rat?
Because he can run in a trap.
8 Headed like a timble tailed like a rat?
A pipe.
9 Sometimes in water, sometimes out, Sometimes with a head on, and sometimes without?
A pillow case.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Alex Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Legalough, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr A. Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Legalough, Co. Cavan