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School: Gearrbhaile (Garbh-dhoire?) (roll number 12110)

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Garbally, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Mícheál Mac Giollabháin
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Ans. The end of May.
    It never was, it never will be, look at your hand and you can plainly see ?
    Ans. Your small finger as big as your other one.
    It goes around the house all day, and it stands at the door at night ?
    Ans. A broom.
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  2. Riddles

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    As I went out the gap, I met my Uncle Tady, I cut his head off and left his body easy ?
    Ans. A head of cabbage.
    The Queen of Mullroe she builds her ship and in that ship her daughter sits and I will be killed for telling her name and thats three times I have told it ?
    Ans. Ann
    What will a hundred tons of coal come to ?
    Ans. Ashes.
    What does the I.O.C. bus stand for ?
    Ans. Passengers.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Walter Costello
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    29
    Address
    Skehanagh, Co. Galway