School: Scoil an Chlochair, Dún Bleisce (roll number 14625)

Location:
Doon, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
An tSr. Regis
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    Two lookers, two cockers, four standers and a fly bater.
    A cow.
    Betty inside the ditch, Betty outside the ditch, if you touch Betty she will bite you.
    A nettle.
    A man without eyes say apples on a tree, he took no apples off the tree, he left no apples on the tree how can that be.
    Answer: He had one eye, he saw one apple, he took one apple and left one apple.
    What goes to Dublin and Wexford without ever moving.
    A railway line.
    It's black and white and red all over.
    Newspaper.
    I know a thing that stands in the field if you rise his head his nose will bleed.
    A pump.
    As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Davy, I cut off his head and left my body easy.
    A head of cabbage.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English