Scoil: Uragh (B.)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Local Riddles

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   1 Full of flesh and blood all day and lies in the corner at night
   Ans. A shoe

   2 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.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   James Mc Govern

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   70

   Seoladh

   Cornalon, Co. an Chabháin