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School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)

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Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Michael Quinn
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    47. What part of a cow goes out a gap first.
    And. Her breath.
    48. As I looked out the window I saw my Uncle Davy with a hundred coats on him?
    Ans. A head of cabbage.
    49. Why is the tongs like a bad Saint?
    Ans. Because it is all the time in the fire.
    50. Wooly in and wooly out; wooly in to wooly snout?
    Ans. Putting your foot in your stocking.
    51. A roomful; a roomful and I could not get a spoonful?
    Ans. Smoke
    52. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, half it a woman and half it a man.
    Ans. A penny
    53. A leaper of ditches; a clipper of thorns; the brown little cow with two leather horns?
    Ans. A hare.
    54. Patches up on patches and no stiches?
    Ans. A head of cabbage.
    55. King Mc Loca built a ship and in that ship and his daughter Ann I'd be blamed for telling her
    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
    James Tiernan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gilkagh East, Co. Galway