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School: Baile Ruadh (roll number 15875)

Location:
Ballyroe, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Seán Ó Héaluithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 017

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    (31) Whitie and Blackie went up the hill. Blackie comes down but whities stays still?
    A hen laying an egg.
    (33) Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you could not guess that? A pipe.
    (34) So I went out a slippery gap I met my incle Davy. I cut off his head and left his body easy? A head of Cabbage.
    (35) How many sides to a ball? Two (Inside and Outside)
    (36) As round as an apple as plump as a ball, it can climb over church steeple and all? The sun.
    (37) Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes? A tongs.
    (38) What would you fill a barrel with and yet make it lighter? Holes.
    (39) If a fellow met a fellow in a fellows field, if a fellow asked a fellow what a fellow means, how many 'f's' in 'that
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Séan Ó Héaluithe
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir