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School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)

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Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
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An Br. Ó Mocháin
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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    the middle, now can you guess this silly riddle.
    A. An umbrella.
    Information from
    Mrs Butler
    Croughnagarraha.
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    R. What is the difference between a blind man and a sailor
    A. A sailor goes to sea and a blind man cannot see to go
    R. What is the longer it lives the shorter it grows
    A. A candle
    R. As round as a marble as deep as a cup and all the kings horses could not pull it up
    A. A well.
    R. Its black and white and red all over.
    A. A news paper
    R. What has a head and cannot get a hat to fit it?
    A. A match.
    R. What is it that is full in the day and empty at night?
    A. A shoe
    R. Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four
    A. A woman milking a cow
    R. What is the loudest thingin the world
    A. A candle because it wakes the dead
    R. How many sides has a bucket
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Rockett
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary