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School: Béal Átha na Sluagh (Buachaillí)

Location:
Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0060

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    If it took ten years of cloth to make a coat and a vest what would it take to make a suit?
    A pants.
    It goes around the wood and around the wood and sleeps in the the wood all night?
    A dishcloth.
    What turns and never moves?
    Milk turning sour.
    What is it that drinks all it gets and eats nothing?
    A lamp.
    It goes around the world and around the world and stays in a corner?
    A Stamp.
    It goes around the house and around the house and sleeps in the house all night?
    A brush.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Seamus Higgins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinasloe, Co. Galway