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School: Cloncarneel

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Cloncarneel, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Bhreacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 198

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    If a poker and tongs cost 9d what would a load of turf come to?
    Ashes.
    Long legs, crooked thighs, little head, and no eyes?
    A tongs.
    All patches, no stiches riddle me that and I give you my breeches?
    Head of cabbage.
    Black and White went up the hill, Black came back, and White stood still?
    A hen after laying an egg.
    Why does a chicken cross the road?
    To get to the other side.
    Why does a donkey eat thistles?
    Because he is a perfect ass.
    If I (i) was in the sun and you (in) out of it what would it be?
    Sin
    If you go up on an ass what would you get down on?
    A rabbit.
    What goes down the chimmney up and won't go up the chimney down?
    An Umbrella.
    There was a man and he had no eyes, he went out one night to view the skies, he saw a tree with apples on, he took no apples off and he left no apples on?
    There was a man and he had
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Maguire
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloncarneel, Co. Meath