School: Baile Rua (Buachaillí)

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   Why is snuff like the letter S. Answer: Because it is the beginning of sneezing. Spell enemy in three letters. Answer: Foe. What word put before frozen water would please the cat. Answer: Mice. What three letters denote extreme cold. Answer: Because it makes ice nice. What has two ears and cannot hear. Answer: A pot. Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more follow that, a shepherd and his dog hour many feet was all that. Answer: Two feet. "Suppose Suppose" three dogs went out for a walk one got killed and how many cam back. Answer: None came back. As round as an apply as deep as a cup and all the water in the world would not fill it up. Answer: A Strainer. What is black inside a white outside. Answer: A Chimney. There was once a man and he was near a river and there was a fox a goose and a piece of oats near him. He wanted to bring them across the river in the way the fox could not eat the goose and the way the goose could not eat the oats and how did he doe it. Answer: He brought the goose first and then the fox, then he brought back the goose and brought the oats and then he went back for the goose. I am seen in the moon but not int the sun, I am found in a pistol but not in a gun, I am seen in a fork but not in a knife. I belong to the

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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mr Michael Kirrane

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Williamstown, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Mary Kirrane

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   78

   Address

   Williamstown, Co. Galway