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School: Ardaghy, Omeath

Location:
Ardaghy, Co. Louth
Teacher:
B. Mac Craith
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    Local Riddles
    11/1/35
    Q. (1) What is the worst weather for rats and mice?
    A. When it is raining cats and dogs.
    Q. (2) What paper is like a sneeze?
    A. Tissue paper.
    (3)
    Q. What ant if the biggest in the world?
    A. The elephant.
    Q. (4) Four stick stand, Four dilly danders, a scuther and a gatherer.
    A. A cow.
    Q. (5) A Toper of ditches, a boper of thorns, a wee brown cow with a leather pair of horns?
    A. A rabbit.
    Q. (6) Down in the meadow there is a bunch of cuilleans and nobody can count them only God's two hands.
    A. Hair.
    Q. (7) Green I am but I am not grass. Black I am but I am not ink. Red I am but I am not
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Fearon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Lislea, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Annie Fearon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Lislea, Co. Louth