School: Baile an Chaisil B.

Location:
Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Búrca
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  1. I'm a strange contradiction I'm new and I'm old.
    I'm often in letters and oft decked with gold.
    Though I never could read yet lettered I'm found.
    Though blind I enlighten though loose I am bound
    I'm English, I'm Irish, I'm French and I'm Dutch.
    Some love me too fondly,
    Some slight me too much:
    Answer: A book
    Why is a racehorse like candy?
    Answer: The more you lick him the quicker he goes.
    A man without eyes say plums on a tree
    He neither took plums nor left plums and how could that be:-
    Answer: A man with one eye saw two plums on a tree he took one plum and left one.
    What is that you would not like to have and would not like to lose it:-
    Answer: A bald head.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Lenihan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Robert
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Ballinglen, Co. Mayo