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School: Ballyline, Callan (roll number 14395)

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Ballyline, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máire Nic Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0854, Page 073

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    As I was going to the fair of Foynes I met ten tinkers and their wives, each of them had a bag, and in every bag there was a cat, and every cat had a kitten. How many were going to the fair of Foynes?
    One. (myself)
    There was a fiddler in Ballylongford who had a brother a fiddler in Ardee, and the fiddle in Ardee, had no brother a fiddler in Ballylongford?
    Because it was his sister.
    If a threewheeler is a tricycle and a twowheeler a bicycle what is a onewheeler?
    A wheel barrow.
    I had an uncle, and he had a brother, and he was no uncle of mine?
    He was my father.
    What is the best thing to put into a cake?
    Your teeth.
    What goes up a ladder with its head down?
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Micheál Ó Lorcáin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Ballyclovan, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Patrick Commins
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 66
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ballyclovan, Co. Kilkenny