School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 298
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- (continued from previous page)/4/ I have a little cow, she eats all I give her but drinks none?
Ans = A fire.
/5/ What is that (that) which has teeth without lips?
Ans = A rake.
/6/ Four feet up and four feet down, soft in the middle and hard all rond?
Ans = A bed.
/7/ Riddle me, riddle me ree, what has an eye and cant see?
Ans = A needle.
/8/ Navan, Cavan, Kells and Killashandra spell me that without a K?
Ans = That.
/9/ What is in the middle of Cavan?
Ans = V.
/10/ What is both inside and outside a house?
Ans = A window.
/11/ As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman, the other a man?
Ans = A penny.
/12/ Why dose a cow look over the ditch?
Ans = Because she can't look under it.
/13/ What side is the handle on a teapot?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Philomena Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
