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School: Béal Átha na Sluagh (Buachaillí)

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Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0062

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    What is it that opens and shuts at the same time?
    The railway gates.
    Where was moses when the light went out?
    In the dark.
    Why is a train like religious people?
    Because it goes through stations.
    Why is a cheap pair of stockings like a mouse?
    Because they both go into holes.
    If a man bought sixty loads of turn in a month what would the turn come to in the end of a month?
    Ashes.
    What is it that drinks all it gets and never eats anything?
    A lamp.
    What is always cut and never eaten?
    A pack of cards.
    A house full a room full you cannot catch a spoonful?
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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
    Informant
    Bernard Ward
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Jubilee Street, Co. Galway