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School: Drom Dhá Eithear (roll number 10825)

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Dromahair, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Emily Nic Adhairt
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    Riddles
    Que: What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen?
    Ans: It is time to be fixed.
    Que: What is the most useless thing a man can have in his pocket?
    Ans: A hole
    Que: Useless, useless instrument from its bought. Its never lent. The man who buys it does not need it and the man that needs it does not know it?
    Ans:A coffin
    james Irwin Armstrong
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Irwin Armstrong
    Gender
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