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School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)

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Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
C. Ó Maonaigh
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    Q What is the smallest bridge in the world.
    A The bridge of your nose.
    Q What is it that when you say it you break it?
    A Silence.
    Q. What is the most abused part of the body.
    A The eye, because it is under the lash all day and gets a good hiding at night.
    Q When is it dangerous to go to church.
    A When there is a Canon in the reading desk and a Big Gun in the pulpit.
    Q What has a tongue and can't talk.
    A A boot.
    Q Why is it dangerous to take a walk through the wood in Spring.
    A Because the trees are shooting.
    Q Why is a hat like a queen.
    A Because it has a crown.
    Q What has an eye and can't see.
    A A needle.
    Q What goes round the house and round the house and peeps in every corner.
    A The sun.
    Q When is a ship like snow.
    A When it is adrift.
    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
    Mitchell Breakey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cumry, Co. Monaghan