Riddles
- Its black and white and red all over?
- It goes in dry it comes out wet, the longer its within the stronger it gets?
- Ink, ank under a bank ten drawing four?
- Four belly banders, four sticks standing, two hookeens, two crookeens, and a slashy about?
- It goes around the house, round the house, and lies at the back door?
- If there were twenty patches on a man's trousers what time would it be?
- A jumper of ditches, a flapper of thorns, a poor little creature with two leather horns?
- The quicker you lick it the faster it goes?
- As I went out a boreen I met my Auntie Noreen. She had an iron nose and steel toes, and dear knows she would frighten the crows?
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- A newspaper.
- Tea in a tea-pot.
- A woman milking a cow.
- A cow.
- A twig.
- It’s time for him to get a new one.
- A rabbit.
- A toffee.
- A gun.