School: Inniskeen (roll number 13396)
- Location:
- Inis Caoin, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Louis A. Duffy
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- (continued from previous page)Riddle: Why is an empty room compared to a room of married people?
Answer: Because there is not a single person in it.
Riddle: Patch upon patch and sewed without stitches?
Answer: A head of cabbage.
Riddle: What is the shyest thing in the house?
Answer: The clock, because it has its hands over its face.
Riddle: Four stick standers, four gillyanders, Two crookers, one licker and a sweeper?
Answer: A Cow.
Riddle: As I looked over the wall, a little man gave me a call. He has a mouth of horn, and a body of flesh, and such a little man was never born?
Answer: A Cock.
Riddle: Can one get down off a donkey?
Answer: No, Because there is no "down" on him.
Riddle: What goes round the wood(continues on next page)
