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School: Baile an Tobair, Baile an Londraigh (roll number 10314)

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Ballintober, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Tuama
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 211

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  1. Local Riddles etc. - Districts of Ballintober, Griston, Glenaree, Ballinalacken, County Limerick (continued)

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    27. As black as ink as white as snow,
    And it hops on the ground like hailstones.
    (Ans) A magpie.
    28. The bull bulled it the cow calved it,
    It grew in the wood, and the smith made it
    (Ans) A Bellows.
    29. How many sticks goes to make a crow's nest.
    (Ans) No are. They are carried.
    30. A man goes away between two woods,
    And comes home between two waters.
    (Ans) A man bringing two pails of water.
    31. What goes round and round the wood,
    And never gets into the wood?
    (Ans) the bark of a tree.
    32. What is always walking with his head down?
    (Ans) A nail in your boot.
    33. Patch upon patch without any stitches
    Riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches
    (Ans) A head of cabbage
    34. What is it that dead people don't eat
    And if we didn't eat it we would die.
    Ans. Nothing.
    35. How many feet have forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog?
    Ans. Two.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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