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School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)

Location:
Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máirtín Breathnach
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Why does a hen cross the road?
    To get to the other side.
    As round as an apple as flat as a pan the whole of a woman, and the half of a man?
    A penny.
    Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four?
    A person milking a cow.
    A white man died and buried in a yellow coffin?
    A banana.
    If it takes a yard and a half to make a coat what will it take to make a trousers?
    A Tailor.
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  2. Riddles

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    What stays in the corner all night and works all day?
    A brush.
    What goes under the water and over the water and still never touches the water?
    An egg in a ducks stomach.
    What part of the cow goes out
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick O' Keeffe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mr James O' Keeffe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    46
    Address
    Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny