School: Dromin, Dunleer (roll number 6576)

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   Why is a jail bird like a robin?
   Because he has been robin.
   Why is a boy with nobody like borrowed money?
   Because he is alone (a lone)
   As I went out my uncle Davis's gap I met my uncle Thomas I cut his trote I sucked his blood and I left his body easy?
   A bottle of Stout.

   

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2. Cures

   

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   Cures A Sty. Get ten thorns and bless yourself with them at the top of your eye to cure a sty? Nettle sting. Rub cappog leaves to you for curing a nettle sting? Warts. Rub caster oil to you, for curing warts? Corn. Put iodine on, to cure a corn? Burn. Get a piece of soap and rub it to you and say St. Lagarns to cure a burn? Mumps. Wash yourself in holywater and bless yourself three time, to cure the mumps? Wart. Rub a snail to a wart and then hang it on a bush and while the snail is withering the wart will be withering? Burns. Cowdung is a cure for burns? Mumps. To put a donkey's winkers on you and drive yourself out and in nine times of a pig sty to cure the mumps? Bleeding eyes. Cobwebs on cuts to keep them from bleeding?

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English