School: Killanure, Mountrath (roll number 8095)

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1. Riddles

   

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   1;What part of a horse and cart goes into a town first?
   The noise.
   2;What goes round and round the world and leaves a feather in every bush?
   The snow.
   3;Did you ever see half a pig's head with two eyes?
   I did with my own two.
   4;How would you get down off and ass? You cannot get "down" off an ass there is hair on an ass.
   5;What dies when it drinks and lives when it eats? The fire.
   6; Of King Kong went to Hong Kong to play ping pong with
   7;Anna May Wong if he died what would they put on his coffin?
   A lid of course.
   8; One day a teacher asked a boy named Dan to spell nettle. Dan said "neidle". The teacher said "there is no "i" in it". Then Dan said "it is no use".
   (Séamus O'Durca Cill an Tubair,Móin Ráica) Pupil 13yrs.
   9; What kind of a wig can not a barber make? An earwig.
   10; What part of a cow goes out through a gate first? It's breath.
   11;Why does a hen "pick a pot"? Because it can't "lick it".
   12; If 8 men ate 6 potatoes what would the number of their car be? 886.
   13; When is money damp? When it is due.(dew).
   14; If i built a wall from her to Dublin what height would it be? The height of nonsense.
   15; I have a cow in yonder field the more you will give her

   

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   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Séamus Ó Bhurcha

   Age

   13

   Address

   Cill an Iúir, Co. Laoise

2. Riddles

   

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   I have a cow in yonder field the more you will give her.

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