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School: Carlingford (B.)

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Carlingford, Co. Louth
Teacher:
C. Ó Blunaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0657, Page 025

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    (Contributed by H. Adamson. Bar View Carlingford)
    1. What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound?
    Answer - a fiddle.
    2. Says the child to its father, how does it come that you are my father, and I'm not your son?
    Answer - The child was a girl.
    3. Long legs, crooked thighs, wee head, and no eyes.
    Answer - a pair of tongs.
    4. As I went through a guttery gap, I met my Uncle Davy.
    I knocked him down, and sucked his blood, and left his body easy.
    Answer - a haw.
    (N.B. Other pupils who have this middle give the answer as either a bottle of wine, or a bottle of whiskey).
    5. What goes up the chimney down, but cannot come down the chimney up?
    Answer - an umbrella.
    6. Black and white and read all over.
    Answer - a newspaper.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    H. Adamson
    Address
    Carlingford, Co. Louth