School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)

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   A. Take your feet off the ground.
   Q. What did the monkey say when he slept on the railway
   A. Hard lines.
   Q. What did the monkey say when he threw away the clock?
   A. Time flies.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   Q. Why does not a clock strike fourteen? A. Because it has not the face to do so. Q. Why is a toffee like a racehorse? A. Because the more you lick it the faster it goes. Q, Why is a dirty boy like flannel? A. Because he shrinks from washing. Q. When is a wall like a fish? A. When it is scaled. Q. Why is a freshly baked cake like the sun? A. Because it is light when it rises. Q. A slipper of ditches, a leaper of thorns, a wee brown cow with a pair of leather horns? A. A hare.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Master J. Hennessy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Dungourney, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mrs Mulcahy

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   55

   Occupation

   Shopkeeper

   Address

   Dungourney, Co. Cork