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School: Mín Bán (roll number 15394)

Location:
Meenbane, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seosamh Mac Coluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 376

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    Because the others are week days (weak)
    8. What is deeper than hell?
    A tailors thimble because it has no bottom.
    9. The prince of Morocco built a ship and in that ship his daughter an' I'll get blame for telling her name an' there three times I've told it ?
    Ann
    10. It begins with an "A" and ends with an "A" and it is backwards and forwards the same?
    Anna.
    11. What keeps its head in water without being drowned?
    A nail in a horse's shoe.
    12. Iron heels and timber toes.
    She's the girl can scare the crows?
    A Gun.
    13. What tree is most used in the school room?
    The Birch.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Susan O' Duffy
    Gender
    Female