School: Rassan
- Location:
- Rassan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Agnes Shaw
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 266
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- Riddles
1 Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches.
Ans. A head of cabbage
2 What is that which has an eye and cannot see.
Ans. A Needle
3 As round as a apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other a man.
Ans. A Penny
4 Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you would not guess that.
Ans. A Pipe
5 Long legs short thighs little head and no eyes.
Ans. A tongs
6 What is full and holds more
Ans. A pot of potatoes when water is poured in
7 What gets bigger the more you take from it.
Ans. A whole
8 There is a little house, it would not hold a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayors House.
Ans. A Thimble
9 What is that brought to table often cut but never eaten.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Conlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickatober, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Carrickatober, Co. Cavan
