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School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown

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Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
C. Ó Hurdail
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  1. A Collection of Riddles

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    Little thing, little thing, smaller than a mouse, & it has more windows than a king's house?
    A thimble
    (2) Little White Nancy, with the long nose.
    The longer she lives, the shorter she grows.
    A candle
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  2. A Collection of Riddles

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    (1) Why could not your aunts, & uncles & cousins exist without 'you'?
    Becaue they would not be aunts & uncles & cousins without 'U'.
    (2) Why is it unkind to mistake a fowl for a pheasant?
    Because you would be making 'game' of it.
    (3) Which gives more eggs, a dead hen or a live one.
    A dead one, as she will 'lay' wherever she is put.
    (4) When is a carving-knife on its travels?
    When it eats its way through 'Turkey' & 'Greece'
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Moore
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny