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School: St Patrick's, Ballyfarnon (roll number 13978)

Location:
Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon
Teachers:
Mark Hanly Thos. Feeny
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    If one man's hen layed an egg in another man's garden whose was the egg.
    The hen's egg.
    Why does a chicken run across a road.
    Because it wants to get to the other side.
    If you got up on a horse what would you get down off.
    A goose.
    If you met a man with a lot of patches on his coat what time is it.
    Time to get a new one.
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    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
    Annie Mc Manus
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullytawen, Co. Roscommon