School: Ardee (Mercy Convent) (roll number 8445)

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   Riddles
   1.When has a person to give up?
   When they are dying
   2. What coat has no buttons?
   A coat of paint
   3. What is it that a white hen can do and a black one can not?
   A white hen can lay an egg the colour of herself and a black can't
   What is it that runs and has no legs?
   A stream
   Veronica O'Brien
   John St
   Ardee

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   Riddles 1. Why does a cow look over a ditch? Because she can't look under it 2. Why does a hen pick a pot? Because she can't lick it 3. Forty sheep went out a gap, forty more followed that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how much is that Three and two added together make five 4. As I went out my Grandfathers gap I met my Uncle Davey, I knocked him down, and sucked his blood, and left his body easy?

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nancy Mc Guinness

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Glebe, Co. Louth