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School: Clinstown (roll number 4193)

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Clintstown, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
S. Ó Dúnlaing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 478

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    A. Because it can fit in a bottle.
    Q. Spell the red rogue of the world in three letters?
    A. F o x.
    Q. Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that, and I'll buy you a pair of breeches?
    A. A head of cabbage.
    Q. Twenty sick (six) sheep went out in a gap, one fell dead, how many came back?
    A. Nineteen.
    Q. Old Mother Hubbard, she has but one eye, she has a long tail which she lets fly, and every time she goes out in a gap, a bit of her tail gets caught in a trap?
    A. A needle and thread.
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  2. Riddles

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    3.
    Q. The more you cut off of it the longer it gets?
    A. A grave.
    Q. Black I am and much admired, many a man and horse I tired, gold and silver I have cost and now on the dung hill I am tossed?
    A. Colm.
    Q. Ink, ank, under the bank ten drawing four?
    A. A woman milking a cow.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Connery
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Knockroe, Co. Kilkenny