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School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)

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Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Heslin
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    114. Q. What is too small for a man and take a bit off it and it's big enough for him?
    A. A grave.
    115. Q. Why does a chimney smoke?
    A. Because it cannot chew.
    116. Q. What's cut in the wood and sounds in the town and earns its master many a pound?
    A. A fiddle.
    117. Q. What does a woman like most?
    A. Her own way.
    118. Q. I washed my face in water that never ran or run
    And I dryed my face in a towel that was never rung or spun?
    A. I washed my face in the dew and I dried it in the sun.
    119. Q. A leaper of ditches
    A clipper of thorns
    A bonny brown cow with a of leather hair of horns.
    A. A hare.
    120. Q. As I sat on my hunkers I looked through my winkers and I saw the dead burying the live?
    A. Raking a fire.
    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
    Pat Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lahard, Co. Leitrim