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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   Riddles.

   68 As black as ink, but ink it is not.
   As green as grass, but grass it is not.
   As red as blood, but blood it is not.

   What is it?
   Ans. A blackberry.

   69. I went up the boirin and i came down the boirin, and I took the boirin on my shoulder.

   Ans. A ladder
   (68 & 69 Tomas O'Domhnaill).

   70. A man was going to be hanged, The judge said to him,
   "If you can give out a riddle that no man here can answer, you will be set free. the man went out into a graveyard, and after a few minutes returned again and said:

   As I went out and before I came in.
   I saw the living, living in the dead.
   Five they are, and six they will be.
   Answer my riddle or set me free.

   Ans. He saw a bird's nest in a dead man's skull. There had been six eggs in it, five birds were out of the shells and the sixth was about to come out. (Liam de Burca
   13 1/2)

   

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2. Troublesome Teeth

   

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   Troublesome Teeth. There was an old woman living in Tory Hill one time, and she had a (stharegal?) of a tooth that

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