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

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1. Riddles

   

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   R. The leaper of dichers, the clipper of thorns a little brown cow with a pair of leather horns? A. A hare. R. What is like half of the moon? A. The other half. R. Why does a cow look over a ditch? A. Because she could not look under it. R. There were nine tea (nine) cups on a table one got broken how many were left? A. eighty nine. R. Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four? A. A woman milking a cow.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Foley

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary

2. Riddles

   

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   R. As round as an apple as flat as a pan, the half of a woman and the whole of a man.
   A. A Penny.
   R. As I looked out my gago window I lost my gago ring I saw the dead burying the live is not that a wonderful thing.
   A. A ship sinking.
   R. As green as grass as red as blood as black as soot.
   A. A blackberry

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