School: Uragh (B.)
- Location:
- Uragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Connachtáin
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- 1 Full of flesh and blood all day and lies in the corner at night
Ans. A shoe2 What goes round the house and round the house and drags its puddings after it:
Ans. A hen and its fleck of chickens.3. What is it that the more you take out of it the bigger it gets.
Ans. A hole.4. What bears water with its head down?
Ans. The crook.5 Blackie and White went over the hill. Blackie came back but white stood still.
Ans. A black hen laying an egg.6. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that me and I'll buy you a pair of breeches
Ans. A cabbage.7 What is the best thing to put in an apple-pie?
Ans. Your teeth.8 What is black and white and read all over?
Ans. The newspaper.9 As I went up to Dublin I saw the world's wonder four and twenty blackbirds tearing the world asunder.
Ans. A Harrow.10 Long legs, crooked thighs, little head and no eyes.
Ans. The tongs.(continues on next page)- Informant
- James Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cornalon, Co. Cavan