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School: Hackettstown (2)

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Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
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Anna Seabrooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 534

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    armful,?
    Answer Air.
    Long legs crooked thighs small head and no eyes?
    Answer:- Fire tongs
    What is the sickest thing in a house?
    Answer:- A window because its all pains.
    Chip, chop, cherry, all the men in London Derry could not climb chip chop cherry?
    Answer: - Smoke.
    Under the bank and over the bank ten drawing four?
    Answer:- A woman milking a cow.
    As white as milk, as black as silk hops along the road like hail stones?
    Answer:- A magpie.
    If you get up on an ass what side would you get down on?
    Answer: - You get no down on an ass.
    What has teeth and will not bite?
    Answer:- A comb.
    What goes up and down and never touches the earth or sky?
    Answer:- The handle of a pump.
    Why is a police man like an aeroplane.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Jane Tutty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
    Informant
    Mrs R. Tutty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hacketstown, Co. Carlow