School: Ballinvally (C.) (roll number 932)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Nic Shiomóin
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- Riddles.
1. Black + white and read all over.
Newspaper.
2. Black within and black without & many a
lovely thing goes in and out. An Oven.
3. Jenny in the ditch, Jenny out of the ditch
and if you go near Jenny, she will bite you.
Ans. A Nettle.
4. A duck before two ducks, a duck in the
middle between two ducks, and a duck
behind two ducks, and a duck behind two
ducks, how many ducks were there?
Three.
5. I went up the road and down the road and
took the road on my back. A ladder.
6. What walks with its head down? A nail in
a boot.
7. Around the house, and round the house
and sleeps in the corner at night.
A Broom.
8. What goes round the field and round the
field + drags a harrow after it. A hen with a
clutch of chickens.
9. Look at your hand + you'll plainly see what
always was + always will be? One of your
fingers longer that the other.
10. A houseful, a roomful and you couldn't
get a spoonful. Smoke.
11. A hard-working father, a lazy old mother
+ twelve little children all the one colour.
A clock.(continues on next page)