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School: Bouleenshere (B.), Baile Thaidhg, Tráighlí (roll number 12864)

Location:
Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Jeremiah M. Healy
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    As I went up to Newtownsteeple, I met a whole crowd of people. They were neither men, women, nor children. Still they had their own human reason?
    Answer: A man, woman, and child.
    Fatherless, Motherless, born without sin. Came into the world, and did not sin since?
    Answer: Thunder.
    Harry, harry Mongo, sitting in her congo eating all the snow balls?
    Answer: A Goat eating white cabbage.
    A black man, and two white men, went for a drive in a car. The black man ate two white men, what was the number of the car?
    Answer: 182.
    Yonder lane there lies a deer, with crooked
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jack Lawlor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyheige, Co. Kerry