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School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

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Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 110

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Q. What is it that the more you take from it the longer it grows?
    A. A grave.
    Q. Why is a policeman like a rainbow?
    A. Because he generally appears after a storm.
    Q. Why does a miller wear a white hat?
    A. To cover his head.
    Q. What is it that everything has and a needle has it too?
    A. A name.
    Q. Who wears the biggest hat?
    A. The man with the biggest head.
    Q. What is it that always walks on its head?
    A. A nail in your shoe.
    Q. Why does a hen pick the pot?
    A. Because she cannot lick it.
    Q. A man was to be hanged, but if he could give a riddle to the judge which he couldn't solve, he would be set free. Having been told by Daniel O' Connell what to say, he went on his journey and said:–
    As I roved out the day I came in,
    Out of the dead the live did spring.
    Six were there and the seventh came free.
    If you riddle me that, you may hang me.
    A. A bird's nest in a dead cow's head.
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