School: Stackallen (roll number 1309)

Location:
Stackallan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
P.T. Mac Gabhann
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    left one apple on.
    With what instrument could all the teeth in your head be drown with-out pain or ache, provided you keep your mouth open and your eyes shut?
    A pencil.
    There were three pigs two each side and one in the middle, how many pigs were there?
    Three.
    I had a little tricky bitch and she had three tricky pups,Tricky, Tray and Tram, which was the the bitche's name?
    Which.
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  2. left one apple on.
    With what instrument could all the teeth in your head be drown with-out pain or ache, provided you keep your mouth open and your eyes shut?
    A pencil.
    There were three pigs two each aide and one in the middle, how many pigs were there?
    Three.
    I had a little bitch and she had three tricky pups,Tricky, Tray and Tram, which was the the bitche's name?
    Which.
    Philomena Lighe,
    Rochestown, Slane
    Co. Meath
    Riddles, riddle reed such a riddle could not be, through a rack, through a reel, through an old spinning-wheel, through a bag of pepper, through a peck of corn, through an old man's skin-bone riddle me that or let it alone? Ans. A moth.
    Spell the red rouge of the world in three letters? Ans. Fox.
    Under the water and over the water and never tips the water, what is that? an egg in a duck.
    Hairy in and hairy out and hairy into hairy's mouth?
    A man putting on his stocking.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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