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School: Johnstown (roll number 877)

Location:
Johnstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Miss H.C. Hickie
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 094

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  1. Riddles

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    What is the diff between a girl and a [?]
    One powders the face & the other faces the powder.
    What is it that we see once & never see again?
    Today
    What do you make long by cutting a bit off it
    A grave.
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  2. Riddles

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    Patch upon patch without any stitches
    Riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches"
    A head of cabbage.
    If a man got 6d for walking a mile
    What would he get for walking 20 miles."
    Sore feet.
    In a garden was laid a most beautiful maid
    As ere could be seen in the morn
    She was made a wife the 1st hour of her life
    And she died before she was born.
    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
    Collector
    Ciaran Boylan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    11