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School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)

Location:
Ballymartle, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Patrick Kelleher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 099D

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    1. As white as milk as black as ink and hops on the ground like hailstone?
    Ans. A Magpie
    2. What always walks with its head down?
    Ans. A nail in your boot.
    3. Two N's two, O's an L and a D put it together and spell it for me?
    Ans. London
    4. Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry spell me that without a K?
    Ans. That.
    5. Behind the house there is a well, and in the well there is a cup, and in the cup there is a sup that every one must taste?
    Ans. death.
    6. What does the heaviest woman in the Dublin fish-market weigh?
    Ans. Fish.
    7. Spell a blackbird in four letters.
    Ans. Crow.
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    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
    Rita Donoghue
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Riverstick, Co. Cork